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AUTHOR
Alisher Kadyrov
Proton-Hydrogen Charge Exchange and Elastic Scattering in the Faddeev Approach
Results of the application of Faddeev-type integral equations to proton-hydrogen collisions are reported. The approach, realized in the impact parameter representation, incorporates the exact two-particle off-shell Coulomb T-matrices in all ‘triangle’ contributions to the effective potentials. Calculatedtotal and differential electron-transfer as well as differential elastic scattering cross sections show very good agreement with experiment, over a wide range of incident energies.
Three-body approach to proton-hydrogen charge exchange and elastic scattering
The impact-parameter Faddeev approach to atomic three-body collisions which has been developed for, and successfully applied to, ion-atom scattering processes, has now been developed further by including, instead of the Coulomb potentials, the full two-particle off-shell Coulomb {ital T} matrices in all {open_quotes}triangle{close_quotes} contributions to the effective potentials. Results of calculations of proton-hydrogen collisions with only the ground states of the hydrogen retained in both the direct and the rearrangement channels are presented. Total and differential electron transfer, as well as differential elastic scattering cross sections, are obtained simultaneously in very good a…
Exact and approximate triangle amplitudes for (in-)elastic three-body processes with charged particles
The triangle amplitudes, which within the framework of the multiple-scattering approach represent the leading contribution to the amplitude for three-body elastic and inelastic reactions, contain the off-shell Coulomb T-matrix describing the intermediate-state scattering of the projectile off each of the target particles. We present results of the exact numerical calculation of that amplitude in which the rescattering particles have charges of opposite sign (`attractive case'), for several atomic processes. This is facilitated by a `new' representation of the Coulomb T-matrix which turns out to be very effective for numerical purposes. One interesting result is that the charge sensitivity o…
Few-body problems in nuclear astrophysics
Few-body methods provide very useful tools to solve different problems important for nuclear astrophysics. Some of them are discussed below.
Triangle amplitude with off-shell CoulombTmatrix for exchange reactions in atomic and nuclear physics
The lowest-order rescattering contribution (triangle amplitude) in three-body models of exchange reactions with charged particles contains the off-shell two-body T matrix describing the intermediate-state Coulomb scattering of charged subsystems. General properties of the exact exchange triangle amplitude, when the incoming and outgoing particles are on the energy shell, are derived. This includes the analytic behavior, i.e., the positions and characters of its leading singularities, in the cos\ensuremath{\vartheta} plane, where \ensuremath{\vartheta} is the scattering angle, in the vicinity of the forward- and backward-scattering directions. Since for computational reasons the Coulomb T ma…
Approximate triangle amplitude for three-body charge exchange processes.
The single-rescattering contribution to the amplitude pertaining to three-body charge exchange reactions (triangle amplitude) contains the off-shell Coulomb {ital T}-matrix {ital T}{sup {ital C}} describing the intermediate-state Coulomb scattering of charged subsystems. For ease of computation, the latter is usually replaced by the potential {ital V}{sup {ital C}} which, however, is unsatisfactory in many cases. An alternative approximation, obtained by {open_quote}{open_quote}renormalizing{close_quote}{close_quote} the {open_quote}{open_quote}triangle{close_quote}{close_quote} contribution with {ital V}{sup {ital C}} instead of {ital T}{sup {ital C}} by a simple analytic expression, is sh…
Energetic collisions of charged projectiles with atomic bound states
Abstract Use of the multiple-scattering expansion of the three-body amplitude for atomic direct and exchange reactions requires the evaluation of multidimensional integrals involving the two-body Coulomb T-operator. We present here numerical results for the first-order terms, both for the attractive and repulsive case. Furthermore, easy-to-calculate approximations are described which in their domain of validity (i) reproduce the exact amplitudes to high accuracy, and (ii) also serve to derive interesting theoretical results.