Improved Solution to the Bethe-Faddeev Equations

Abstract

An approximate analytic solution is derived for the Bethe-Faddeev three-body equations in nuclear matter. The solution is no more complicated than the original approximation proposed by Bethe, but it is more accurate and avoids the discontinuities that appear in the original solution. In a certain limiting case, the solution agrees with the one previously proposed by Moszkowski on the basis of a variational treatment.