Related papers: Positronium-Atom Collisions
We determine effective collisional radii of positronium (Ps) by considering Ps states in hard-wall spherical cavities. $B$-spline basis sets of electron and positron states inside the cavity are used to construct the states of Ps. Accurate…
An analysis of the channel wave functions is made to clarify the types of resonance emerging from Ps-Ps and Ps-Ps* collisions. The ordering of the energy levels of the states of the dipositronium is evaluated based on the inherent nodal…
In this work we define single-particle potentials for a positron and a positronium atom interacting with light atoms (H, He, Li and Be) by inverting a single-particle Schr\"odinger equation. For this purpose, we use accurate energies and…
Scattering and ionizing cross sections and rates are calculated for ultracold collisions between metastable helium atoms using a fully quantum-mechanical close-coupled formalism. Homonuclear collisions of the bosonic ${}^{4}$He$^{*}…
The projection method is used to demonstrate the existence of positron attachment to three doubly excited states of helium. The e^+He(2s^2 1Se), e^+He(3s^2 1Se), and the e^+He(2s2p 3Po) states have binding energies of 0.447eV, 0.256eV and…
We investigate the modeling of positronium (Ps) states and their pick-off annihilation trapped at open volumes pockets in condensed molecular matter. Our starting point is the interacting many-body system of Ps and a He atom because it is…
We present a quantum mechanical study of the diatomic hydrogen $H(^{2}S)$ and oxygen $O(^{3}P)$ collision and energy transfer for its four molecular symmetry $(X^{2}\Pi, ^{2}\Sigma^{-}, ^{4}\Pi, ^{4}\Sigma^{-})$, which is important for the…
Collisions of metastable antiprotonic helium atoms with atoms of the medium induce, among other processes, transitions between hyperfine structure (HFS) states, as well as shifts and broadening of microwave M1 spectral lines. In order to…
Scattering and reaction cross sections of $e^{\pm}-Ps$ system are calculated for total angular momentum L=0, 1 and 2 and energies between the Ps(n=2)-Ps(n=3) threshold. We solved a set of Faddeev-Merkuriev and Lippmann-Schwinger integral…
New quantum scattering calculations for rotational deexcitation transitions of CO induced by H collisions using two CO-H potential energy surfaces (PESs) from Shepler et al. (2007) are reported. State-to-state rate coefficients are computed…
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,…
Predicted twenty years ago, positron binding to neutral atoms has not yet been observed experimentally. A new scheme is proposed to detect positron-atom bound states by colliding Rydberg positronium (Ps) with neutral atoms. Estimates of the…
We present the first fully ab initio calculations of collision-induced broadening and shift of spectral lines in antiprotonic helium ($\bar{p}$He$^{+}$) perturbed by atomic helium. To overcome critical limitations of previous studies, we…
Collisions of metastable antiprotonic helium with medium atoms induce transitions between hyperfine structure sublevels as well as shift and broadening of the microwave M1 spectral lines. We consider these effects in the framework of a…
A many-body-theory approach has been developed to study positronium-atom interactions. As first applications, we calculate the elastic scattering and momentum-transfer cross sections and the pickoff annihilation rate $^1Z_\text{eff}$ for Ps…
Carbon monoxide is a simple molecule present in many astrophysical environments, and collisional excitation rate coefficients due to the dominant collision partners are necessary to accurately predict spectral line intensities and extract…
We investigate resonances in positron-sodium scattering using the $R$-matrix propagation method formulated in hyperspherical coordinates. The interaction between the sodium core and the valence electron is described by analytical model…
Both charm and bottom quarks form nonrelativistic bound states analogous to positronium. The J/psi and psi(2S) charmonium states and the first three Upsilon(nS) bottomonium states, all spin-triplet S-wave quarkonium states below…
The confined variational method in conjunction with the orthogonalizing pseudo-potential method and the stabilization method is used to study the low energy elastic scattering between two spin-polarized metastable positronium…
We theoretically study slow collisions of NH$_3$ molecules with He atoms, where we focus in particular on the observation of scattering resonances. We calculate state-to-state integral and differential cross sections for collision energies…