(K)-Matrix Theory of Nuclear Form Factors

Abstract

A method of constraining a shell-model-type nuclear bound-state calculation to give wave functions that display physical asymptotic behavior is derived and subsequently used to get an expression for the nuclear form factor. In this method one seeks the poles of the collision matrix rather than the eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian. We compare our method with that of Lane and Robson, that of Pinkston and Satchler, and that of Nagarajan and Tobocman.