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Resonant Phenomena in Antihydrogen-Hydrogen Scattering

Atomic Physics 2009-11-13 v1 Atomic and Molecular Clusters

Abstract

We present a treatment of cold hydrogen-antihydrogen collisions based on the asymptotic properties of atom-antiatom interactions. We derive general formulas for the elastic and inelastic cross sections and for the scattering lengths and analyze their sensitivity to the parameters characterizing the inelasticity of the collision process. Given the inelasticity, we obtain bounds for the complex scattering length. We investigate the influence of strong nuclear forces and the isotope effects in HˉH\bar{\rm H}{\rm H} and HˉD\bar{\rm H}{\rm D} collisions and demonstrate enhancement of these effects due to the presence of the near-threshold narrow HHˉ{\rm H}\bar{\rm H} (HˉD\bar{\rm H}{\rm D}) states. The values of the elastic and inelastic cross-sections with simultaneous account of rearrangement and strong forces are presented. General expressions for the (complex) energies of the near-threshold HHˉ\rm{H}\bar{\rm H} states are obtained.

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@article{arxiv.0807.2042,
  title  = {Resonant Phenomena in Antihydrogen-Hydrogen Scattering},
  author = {A. Yu. Voronin and P. Froelich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.2042},
  year   = {2009}
}

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26 pages 7 figures

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