Nuclear Forces and Nuclear Energetics

Both a static and a momentum-dependent potential are derived from one-meson-exchange Born amplitudes, and are adjusted to fit (i) the deuteron binding energy and quadrupole moment, (ii) $S$, $P$, and $D$ partial waves from 25 to 310 MeV, and (iii) the binding energy and saturation property of nuclear matter. This is possible through a different form of the central and tensor potentials which has not been used previously to calculate problems (i), (ii), and (iii) above. We find the $\sigma$ meson unsuitable to describe the two-pion-exchange region in that a potential with meson parameters common to all partial waves is not achieved.