  The clothing procedure, put forward in quantum field theory by Greenberg and
Schweber, is applied for the description of nucleon-nucleon (N-N) scattering.
We consider pseudoscalar, vector and scalar meson fields interacting with 1/2
spin fermion ones via the Yukawa-type couplings to introduce trial interactions
between "bare" particles. The subsequent unitary clothing transformations are
found to express the total Hamiltonian through new interaction operators that
refer to particles with physical (observable) properties, the so-called clothed
particles. In this work, we are focused upon the Hermitian and
energy-independent operators for the clothed nucleons, being built up in the
second order in the coupling constants. The corresponding analytic expressions
in momentum space are compared with the separate meson contributions to the
one-boson-exchange potentials in the meson theory of nuclear forces. In order
to evaluate the T-matrix of the N-N scattering we have used an equivalence
theorem that enables us to operate in the clothed particle representation (CPR)
instead of the bare particle representation with its huge amount of virtual
processes. We have derived the Lippmann-Schwinger-type equation for the CPR
elements of the T-matrix for a given collision energy in the two-nucleon sector
of the Hilbert space of hadronic states and elaborated a code for its numerical
solution in momentum space.
