Resonances and off-shell characteristics of effective interactions

Abstract The importance of including experimental resonances in constructing effective intercluster interactions has been investigated. For this, we first address the question of how to obtain the analytical properties of the Jost function in regions of physical interest on the complex k -plane when the potential is given in a tabular form. We then employ the Marchenko inverse scattering method to construct, numerically, phase equivalent local potentials supporting the same bound state(s) but having different resonance spectra which affect the off-shell characteristics of the corresponding scattering amplitudes. This implies that the inclusion of the experimental resonances in constructing a potential would change its shape, strength, and range which in turn would modify the bound and scattering wave functions in the interior region. This is expected to have important consequences in calculations of transition amplitudes in nuclear reaction theories, which strongly depend on the behaviour of the wave functions at short distances. The influence of Supersymmetric Transformations on the position and movement of resonances has also been investigated.