CHARGE-DEPENDENT 3-BODY FORCE AND COULOMB ENERGY DIFFERENCE OF HE-3-H-3

Charge-dependent three-body potential with one photon and one pion exchanged was derived. Only the dominant lowest-order processes which arise from the Born terms of the internal processes are investigated. The contribution of this charge-dependent three-body potential to the binding energy difference of He3-H3 is then evaluated using a realistic variational wave function and found to be small but not negligible. NUCLEAR STRUCTURE He3, H3, Charge-dependent three-body force, Coulomb energy. © 1979 The American Physical Society.