Investigation of the structure of the few body kaonic nuclei using the method of hyperspherical functions in momentum space.

The kaonic clusters ...NN and ...NNN are studied within the method of hyperspherical functions in the momentum representation. Binding energies and widths of three- and four-body nuclear quasibound states are calculated by employing realistic NN potentials and the energy dependent chiral ...N interaction, as well as a phenomenological ...N potential. The comparison of the results of calculations obtained in the framework of the variational method, Faddeev, Faddeev-Yakubovsky equations, and method of hyperspherical functions in configuration space are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]