Threshold fragmentation under dipole forces
Atomic Physics
2007-05-23 v1 General Physics
Abstract
The threshold law for N-body fragmentation under dipole forces is formulated. It emerges from the energy dependence of the normalization of the correlated continuum wave function for N fragments. It is shown that the dipole threshold law plays a key role in understanding all threshold fragmentation phenomena since it links the classical threshold law for long-range Coulomb interactions to the statistical law for short-range interactions. Furthermore, a tunnelling mechanism is identified as the common feature which occurs for all three classes of interactions, short-range, dipole and Coulomb.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0011024,
title = {Threshold fragmentation under dipole forces},
author = {Thomas Pattard and Jan M. Rost},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0011024},
year = {2007}
}