HYPERSPHERICAL GROUND STATE WAVE FUNCTIONS FOR NUCLEI WITH A > 4

The general formulation of a technically advantageous method to find the ground state solution of the Schrodinger equation in configuration space for systems with the number of particles A greater than 4 is presented. The wave function is ex- panded in pair-correlated hyperspherical harmonics beyond the lowest-order ap- proximation and then calculated in the Faddeev approach. A recent efficient re- cursive method to construct antisymmetric A-particle hyperspherical harmonics is used. The accuracy is tested for the bound-state energies of nuclei with A = 6 to 12 using the effective V4 potentials. The high quality of the results thus obtained becomes evident from a comparison with other approaches.