The fishbone potential of composite particles simulates the Pauli effect by nonlocal terms. We determine the α − α fishbone potential by simultaneously fitting to two-α resonance energies, experimental phase shifts and three-α binding energies. We found that essentially a simple gaussian can provide a good description of two-α and three-α experimental data without invoking three-body potentials.
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