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Spin-Exchange in Hydrogen-Antihydrogen Collisions

Atomic Physics 2015-05-13 v1 Atomic and Molecular Clusters

Abstract

We consider the spin-exchange in ultracold collisions of hydrogen (HH) and antihydrogen (Hˉ\bar{H}) atoms. The cross sections for transitions between various hyperfine states are calculated. We show that the process of spin exchange in HˉH\bar{H}-H collisions is basically driven by the strong force between proton and antiproton, that spin-exchange cross-sections are proportional to the difference of singlet and triplet strong force S-wave scattering lengths, while the strong force effects are enhanced about 10910^9 times due to long range atomic forces. We show that any difference in hyperfine structure of HH and Hˉ\bar{H} (CPT violation) manifests itself in radical change of spin-exchange cross-sections energy behavior.

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@article{arxiv.0907.4444,
  title  = {Spin-Exchange in Hydrogen-Antihydrogen Collisions},
  author = {A. Yu. Voronin and P. Froelich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4444},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages, 4 figures

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