Three potential formalism for the three-body scattering problem with attractive Coulomb interactions

Feb, 2001
12 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.A 63 (2001) 062721
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Abstract: (APS)
A three-body scattering process in the presence of Coulomb interaction can be decomposed formally into two-body single channel scattering, two-body multichannel scattering, and genuine three-body scattering. The corresponding integral equations are coupled Lippmann-Schwinger and Faddeev-Merkuriev integral equations. We solve these by applying the Coulomb-Sturmian separable expansion method. We present elastic scattering and reaction cross sections of the e++H system both below and above the H(n=2) threshold. We find excellent agreements with previous calculations in most cases.