A quark-model based study of the triton binding energy

Abstract

The three-nucleon bound state problem is studied employing a nucleon-nucleon potential obtained from a basic quark-quark interaction in a five-channel Faddeev calculation. The obtained triton binding energy is comparable to those predicted by conventional models of the $NN$ force.

Comments: 13 pages, 3 eps figures. To be published in Physical Review C