Separable representation of the Bonn nucleon-nucleon potential

Abstract
A separable representation of a boson-exchange nucleon-nucleon potential is constructed via the Ernst-Shakin-Thaler method. The resulting separable interactions provide for a satisfactory approximation of the on-shell as well as off-shell properties of the Bonn potential. Their form factors are composed of rational functions suitable for today’s computer codes for few-body systems. First results obtained with these separable potentials for elastic nucleon-deuteron scattering are presented.