Low-Energy Parameters of the Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering and Deuteron Properties, Electromagnetic Interactions with Bound Systems

One more application of the method of unitary clothing transformations (UCT's) in the theory of nucleon-nucleon (N - N) interaction has been presented. We have extended our previous analysis (Dubovik and Shebeko in Few-Body Syst 48:109-142, 2010) of the N - N scattering below the pion production threshold to treat the neutron-proton (n - p) scattering at low energies and the deuteron static properties. Our calculations of deuteron magnetic and quadrupole moments have been carried out in the framework of a gauge independent description of electromagnetic (EM) interactions with nuclei (bound systems) using the clothed particle representation of the Hamiltonian, the boost and EM current density operators for the n-p system.