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This work treats few-body systems consisting of neutrons interacting with a $^{4}{\mathrm{He}}$ nucleus. The adiabatic hyperspherical representation is utilized to solve the $N$-body Schr$\ddot{\mathrm{o}}$dinger equation for the three- and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-25 Michael D. Higgins , Chris H. Greene

The non-symmetrized hyperspherical harmonics method for a three-body system, composed by two particles having equal masses, but different from the mass of the third particle, is reviewed and applied to the $^3$H, $^3$He nuclei and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-22 A. Nannini , L. E. Marcucci

This work focuses on extracting nuclear contact coefficients for \( A = 2 \), \( A = 3 \) and \( A = 4 \) nuclei within the Generalized Contact Formalism framework. We investigate the universality of these coefficients across different…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-31 Eleonora Proietti , Laura Elisa Marcucci , Michele Viviani

The AGS equations are solved for $n{}^3\mathrm{H}$ and $p{}^3\mathrm{He}$ scattering including the Coulomb interaction. Comparison with previous work confirms the accuracy of the calculation and helps clarify a number of issues related to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Deltuva , A. C. Fonseca

A scattering resonance is one of the most striking quantum effects in low-temperature molecular collisions. Predicted decades ago theoretically, they have only been resolved experimentally for systems involving at most four atoms. Extension…

This paper investigates the possible use of the Hyperspherical Adiabatic basis in the description of scattering states of a three-body system. In particular, we analyze a 1+2 collision process below the three-body breakup. The convergence…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-03-24 P. Barletta , A. Kievsky

The present study presents a comprehensive theoretical investigation of atom and asymmetric top molecule inelastic scattering based on the R-matrix formalism. The proposed methodology establishes a rigorous framework for treating inelastic…

A genuinely three-dimensional system, viz. the hyperbolic 4-sphere scattering system, is investigated with classical, semiclassical, and quantum mechanical methods at various center-to-center separations of the spheres. The efficiency and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Main , E. Atilgan , H. S. Taylor , G. Wunner

The transport of charged particles or photons in a scattering medium can be modelled with a Boltzmann equation. The mathematical treatment for scattering in such scenarios is often simplified if evaluated in a frame where the scattering…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Nils W. Schween , Brian Reville

Solution of the scattering problem turns to be very difficult task both from the formal as well as from the computational point of view. If the last two decades have witnessed decisive progress in ab initio bound state calculations,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Carbonell , A. Deltuva , A. C. Fonseca , R. Lazauskas

The four-body equations of Alt, Grassberger and Sandhas are solved for the neutron-${}^3$H scattering at energies above the four-nucleon breakup threshold. The accuracy and practical applicability of the employed complex energy method is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-11-13 A. Deltuva , A. C. Fonseca

We implement the Rayleigh-Ritz method in supersymmetric quantum mechanics with flat directions, and extract the S-matrix and metastable resonances. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated in two strongly coupled systems: an N=1 toy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-26 Bruno Balthazar , Victor A. Rodriguez , Xi Yin

We analyze a system of two colliding ultracold atoms under strong harmonic confinement from the viewpoint of quantum defect theory and formulate a generalized self-consistent method for determining the allowed energies. We also present two…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Gillian Peach , Ian B Whittingham , Timothy J Beams

Faddeev-Yakubovski equations in configuration space are used to solve four nucleon problem for bound and scattering states. Different realistic interaction models are tested, elucidating open problems in nuclear interaction description. On…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Lazauskas , J. Carbonell

We outline inconsistencies in presently used models for high energy nuclear scattering, which make their application quite unreliable. Many "successes" are essentially based on an artificial freedom of parameters, which does not exist when…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Werner , H. J. Drescher , S. Ostapchenko , T. Pierog

We propose a method to perform precision measurements of the interaction parameters in systems of N ultra-cold spin 1/2 atoms. The spectroscopy is realized by first creating a coherent spin superposition of the two relevant internal states…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Rey , L. Jiang , M. D. Lukin

We propose a hybrid quantum-classical framework to solve the elastic scattering phase shift of two well-bound nuclei in an uncoupled channel. Within this framework, we develop a many-body formalism in which the continuum scattering states…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-14 Peiyan Wang , Weijie Du , Wei Zuo , James P. Vary

We present a theoretical study of the processes d(d,p)3H and d(d,n)3He at energies of interest for energy production and for big-bang nucleosynthesis. We accurately solve the four body scattering problem using the ab-initio hyperspherical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-29 M. Viviani , L. Girlanda , A. Kievsky , D. Logoteta , L. E. Marcucci

In this study, we investigate atom--dimer scattering within the framework of the hyperspherical method. The coupled channel Schr\"odinger equation is solved using the R-matrix propagation technique combined with the smooth variable…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Cai-Yun Zhao , Yi Zhang , Hui-Li Han , Ting-Yun Shi

The problem of proton-antiproton motion in the ${\rm H}$--${\rm \bar{H}}$ system is investigated by means of the variational method. We introduce a modified nuclear interaction through mass-scaling of the Born-Oppenheimer potential. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Henrik Stegeby , Konrad Piszczatowski , Hans O Karlsson , Roland Lindh , Piotr Froelich