A short revisit to Kuo-Brown effective interactions

International audienceThis paper is a short revisit to Kuo-Brown effective interaction derived from the Hamada-Johnston nucleon-nucleon potential, doneby Gerry Brown and Tom Kuo. This effective interaction, derived in year 1966, is the first attempt to describe nuclear structureproperties from the free nucleon-nucleon potential. Nowadays much progress has been achieved for the effective interactions inshell model. We would compare the effective interactions obtained in the 1966 paper with up-to-date shell-model interactions insd-shell and pf-shell model space. Recent knowledge of effective interactions on nuclear structure, can also be traced in the Kuo-Brown effective interaction, i.e., the universal roles of central and tensor forces, which reminds us that such discovery should benoticed much earlier