The longitudinal response function of ' C in the range of momentum transfers 200MeV/c &q &550 MeV/c is calculated in the Tamm-Dancoff approximation.The particle-hole Green's function is evaluated by means of a doorway-state expansion. This method allows us to take into account finite-range residual interactions in the continuum, including exchange processes. At low momentum transfers, calculations agree qualitatively with the data. The data cannot be reproduced at momentum transfers around 450 MeV/c. This discrepancy can be accounted for neither by uncertainties in the residual interaction, nor by more complicated processes in the nuclear final states.

The off-shell properties of two-nucleon t matrices are studied for both uncoupled and coupled channels. Complex t matrices have been obtained using both matrix inversion and continued fraction techniques of solution and predicated upon a standard phenomenological form (Reid}, a meson exchange model (Paris), and a new phenomenological form that we have developed, of the two-nucleon interaction. The off-shell t matrices from these interactions are very similar whenever they give essentially the same phase shifts at all energies. When they do not, the associated offshell t matrices diverge so substantially that any data depending upon these off-shell t matrices will differentiate between the interactions. trix. Secondly we investigate alternative numerical techniques to have a reliable evaluation of the off-shell properties and finally we analyze the differences we find in the off-shell behavior of various internucleon forces.The first of the concerns, the two nucleon problem, has been studied extensively over the past 30 years both from a purely phenomenological viewpoint as well as with theories founded upon meson exchanges. More recently, new schemes which are hybrids of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at short distances with one boson exchange potentials for the larger separations have been proposed. The Hamada-Johnston and Reid potentials are representative of the phenomenological viewpoint and are interactions still in use. Of the more modern NN interactions determined from field theoretic or dispersion relations techniques, the Bonn and Paris are widely quoted in literature, while the QCD based models are as yet not so favored. %hatever be the basis, all such NN interactions are determined from fits to the elastic NN phase shifts and the properties of the deuteron, ' such fits varying in quality between different interactions and for different twobody channels. The critical features of all interactions, whether contrived or derived, are the form factors. For this reason we consider herein the Reid interaction as being representative of the usual phenomenologically based interactions, the Paris as being representative of the derived interactions and a third which we have developed from a recent, momentum space, phenomenological model. ' Our model interaction has a form factor with momentum transfer dependence additional to the usual one boson exchange potentials (OBEP} and is defined to obtain the best possible fits to all partial wave 37 934

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