Deuteron form factors for the Nijmegen potentials

The deuteron form factors and tensor polarizations in elastic ed scattering are considered for four versions of the Nijmegen nucleon-nucleon potentials. The numerical deuteron wave functions in these potentials are approximated by a series of Gaussian functions with the result that it can be used in any computations of integrated characteristics. The quality of this approximation of the wave function is exemplified by comparing the results that it produces for the momentum distributions, the quadrupole moment, the D-state probability, and the deuteron radius with the results of the corresponding precise calculations. (C) 2000 MAIK "Nauka/Interperiodica".