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Journal of Physics Conference Series

Theoretical study of very low-energy collision in Coulombic three-body systems

Yueming Zhou, Oleg I. Tolstikhin, Shinichi Watanabe, Tōru Morishita

Published Sep 7, 2015• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present a systematic study for Coulombic three-body systems in very low-energy regime with mass ratio varying over several orders of magnitudes. Accurate phase shifts and scattering lengths are obtained by the Hyperspherical elliptic coordinate method. We identify the mass ratio dependence of the scattering lengths.
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10.1088/1742-6596/635/2/022014

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