%0 Journal Article %T Comparative study of three-nucleon force models in nuclear matter %A Domenico Logoteta %A Isaac Vida£ża %A Ignazio Bombaci %A Alejandro Kievsky %J Physics %D 2015 %I arXiv %X We calculate the energy per particle of symmetric nuclear matter and pure neutron matter using the microscopic many-body Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (BHF) approach and employing the Argonne V18 (AV18) nucleon-nucleon (NN) potential supplemented with two different three-nucleon force models recently constructed to reproduce the binding energy of $^3$H, $^3$He and $^4$He nuclei as well as the neutron-deuteron doublet scattering length. We find that none of these new three-nucleon force models is able to reproduce simultaneously the empirical saturation point of symmetric nuclear matter and the properties of three- and four-nucleon systems. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01248v1