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The electron-electron correlation term in two-atomic collision is the most important, most difficult term to obtain the effective interatomic potential. Generally the H and H collision is a four center problem. It is extremely difficult to…

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We show that both confined atoms and electron-atom scattering can be described by a unified basis set method. The central idea behind this method is to place the atom inside a hard potential sphere, enforced by a standard Slater type basis…

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Scattering of light dark matter (LDM) particles with atomic electrons is studied in the context of effective field theory. Contact and long-range interactions between dark matter and an electron are both considered. A state-of-the-art…

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The structure of the unnatural parity states of PsH, LiPs, NaPs and KPs are investigated with the configuration interaction and stochastic variational methods. The binding energies (in hartree) are found to be 8.17x10-4, 4.42x10-4,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-07-29 M. W. J. Bromley , J. Mitroy , K. Varga

The exact study of small systems can guide us toward measures for extracting information about many-body physics as we move to more complex systems capable of quantum information processing or quantum analog simulation. We use exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-10 Emily Townsend , Tomáš Neuman , Alex Debrecht , Javier Aizpurua , Garnett W. Bryant

A microscopic version of the Continuum Discretized Coupled Channel (CDCC) method is used to investigate $^{6}$He scattering on $^{27}$Al, $^{58}$Ni, $^{120}$Sn, and $^{208}$Pb at energies around the Coulomb barrier. The $^{6}$He nucleus is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-30 P. Descouvemont

Electron anti-neutrinos are commonly detected in liquid scintillator experiments via inverse beta decay, by looking at the coincidence between the reaction products, neutron and positron. Prior to positron annihilation, an electron-positron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-02-28 D. Franco , G. Consolati , D. Trezzi

A hypercritical value for the magnetic field is determined, which provides the full compensation of the positronium rest mass by the binding energy in the maximum symmetry state and disappearance of the energy gap separating the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 A. E. Shabad , V. V. Usov

Doppler-broadened $\gamma$-ray spectra for positron annihilation on molecules are calculated using many-body theory. By employing Gaussian bases for the electron and positron wavefunctions, a computable expression that involves a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 S. K. Gregg , J. P. Cassidy , A. R. Swann , J. Hofierka , B. Cunningham , D. G. Green

Entanglement of photons originating from the electron-positron annihilation has not been proven experimentally. Though the independent experiments performed so far unanimously confirm that correlation between the linear polarizations of…

Popular Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Sushil Sharma , Deepak Kumar , Pawel Moskal

Positron binding energies in the negative ions H$^-$, F$^-$, Cl$^-$ and Br$^-$, and the closed-shell atoms Be, Mg, Zn and Ca, are calculated via a many-body theory approach developed by the authors [J.~Hofierka \emph{et al.} Nature~{\bf…

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We review the experimental knowledge on the dipole polarizability (DP) of nuclei and its relation to the neutron skin thickness and properties of the neutron-rich matter equation of state (EOS). The discussion focuses on recent experiments…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-07-08 P. von Neumann-Cosel , A. Tamii

The life-time of the four-body atomic system MuPs ($\mu^{+} e^{-}_2 e^{+}$ or muonium-positronium) against positron annihilation has been evaluated as $\tau = \frac{1}{\Gamma} \approx 4.076453 \cdot 10^{-10}$ $sec$. Various annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Alexei M. Frolov

A detailed quantum-electrodynamic calculation of muon pair creation in laser-driven electron-positron collisions is presented. The colliding particles stem from a positronium atom exposed to a superintense laser wave of linear polarization,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carsten Müller , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

Cold atom experiments show that a mobile impurity particle immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate forms a well-defined quasiparticle (Bose polaron) for weak to moderate impurity-boson interaction strengths, whereas a significant line…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-06 Ragheed Alhyder , Georg M. Bruun , Thomas Pohl , Mikhail Lemeshko , Artem G. Volosniev

The main properties of the interaction of ultra low-energy antiprotons ($% E\le10^{-6}$ a.u.) with atomic hydrogen are established. They include the elastic and inelastic cross sections and Protonium (Pn) formation spectrum. The inverse…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Yu. Voronin , J. Carbonell

Effect of charge-transfer recombination for positronium (Ps) scattering is studied on Ps-H system using coupled-channel formalism considering a new rearrangement channel Ps+H --> e^+ + H^- and exchange. The correlation and continuum effects…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P K Biswas

In this II, a probability to detect the neutrino produced in a high-energy pion decay is shown to receive the large finite-size correction. The neutrino interacts extremely weakly with matters and is described with a many-body wave function…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-09-26 Kenzo Ishikawa , Yutaka Tobita

Many physical systems are well modeled as collections of interacting particles. Nevertheless, a general approach to quantifying the absolute degree of order immediately surrounding a particle has yet to be described. Motivated thus, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 John Çamkıran , Fabian Parsch , Glenn D. Hibbard

Positronium-hydrogen (Ps-H) scattering is of interest, as it is a fundamental four-body Coulomb problem. We have investigated low-energy Ps-H scattering below the Ps(n=2) excitation threshold using the Kohn variational method and variants…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Denton Woods