https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2018-12480-y
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Semiclassical triton
1
University of Mumbai, 400 098, Mumbai, India
2
Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, 400 085, Mumbai, India
3
Department of Physics, Guru Nanak Dev University, 143005, Amritsar, India
4
Homi Bhabha National Institute, Anushakti Nagar, 400 094, Mumbai, India
* e-mail: hkaur0917@gmail.com
Received:
11
October
2017
Accepted:
14
February
2018
Published online:
27
March
2018
The symmetric components of the spatial part of S - and D-states’ wave functions for triton (3H) are investigated utilizing semiclassical expansion (in the powers of 
). The analysis of the diagonalized Hamiltonian reveals the existence of two different mass states within the ground state of triton. We have solved the coupled differential equations for the two admixed states 2
S
1/2 and 4
D
1/2 owing to tensor interactions exploiting classical WKB-theory using phenomenological Feshbach-Pease potentials. The relative probability of the D -state is found to be in good agreement with the experimentally inferred value and results obtained by various other theoretical methods (4-9%).
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