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Three-body approach to proton-hydrogen charge exchange and elastic scattering

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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 agreement with experiment, over a wide range of (nonrelativistic) incident energies. {copyright} {ital 1999} {ital The American Physical Society}