Comparison of energy-dependent and independent interactions-a case study

Abstract

In the present text we construct velocity-dependent or equivalently energy-dependent potential (EDP) to an energy-independent nonlocal potential (EIP) of rank-1 by Taylor series method. The phase shifts for the nucleon-nucleon and alpha-nucleon systems are computed for these two potentials by exploiting the variable phase method and the Fredholm determinant, respectively. The velocity-dependent potential is found to be superior to central nonlocal interaction in generating the scattering phase shifts up to high energy region.