TRITON CALCULATIONS WITH THE NEW NIJMEGEN POTENTIALS

Triton properties are calculated using new nucleon-nucleon potentials, which were fit to the world nucleon-nucleon data. Three of these models have a nearly optimal chi2 per degree of freedom and can therefore be considered as alternative partial-wave analyses, which in quality can almost compete with the Nijmegen partial-wave analysis. The triton binding energy obtained with three local models (Nijm II, Reid93, AV18) can be summarized as 7.62 +/- 0.01 MeV, which is nearly 900 keV lower than experiment. The non-local model Nijm I binds by 7.72 MeV.