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The rate constants for the formation, destruction, and collisional excitation of SH$^+$ are calculated from quantum mechanical approaches using two new SH$_2^+$ potential energy surfaces (PESs) of $^4A''$ and $^2A''$ electronic symmetry.…
Decay rates of the positronium hydride PsH, a bound state of a proton, a positron, and two electrons, are determined for two rare channels, PsH $\to p^+ e^- \gamma$ and PsH $\to p^+ e^-$. Previous studies overestimated these rates by…
We perform Low Energy Ion Scattering with He ions ranging in energy from 1 keV to 3 keV on CaSiO$_3$ using a commercial electrostatic detector system and determine the charge fraction of scattered ions from comparison with Binary Collision…
We have performed a systematic study of J/$\psi$ and $\psi$(2S) production in p--p collisions at different Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies and at different rapidities using the leading order non-relativistic quantum chromodynamics…
The comparison of different models (the Ore, spur and blob models) of positronium (Ps) formation is presented. Because in molecular media Ps is formed in the terminal positron blob and not in an ordinary spur, the application of the blob…
The elastic scattering and resonant charge transfer integral cross sections in $\rm{H}(1s) + \rm{H^+}$ collisions are computed for the center-of-mass energy range of $10^{-10}-10$ eV. Fully quantal and semiclassical approaches are utilized…
Atomic and molecular scattering at semiconductor interfaces plays a central role in surface chemistry and catalysis, yet predictive simulations remain challenging due to strong nonadiabatic effects causing the breakdown of the…
The production rates of heavy quarkonia in ion-ion collisions provide sensitive probes in the studies of the hot and dense matter formed in these collisions at high energies. However, a reference for understanding the behavior in the hot…
The low energy scattering of heavy positively charged particles on hydrogen atoms (H) are investigated by solving the Faddeev equations in configuration space. A resonant value of the pH scattering length, $a=750\pm 5$ a.u., in the pp…
The s-wave scattering length for the Positronium-Positronium interaction is estimated semi-phenomenologically with the long-range van der Waals force and the short-range repulsive potential that represents the hard core between two…
Calculations of the positron-Li system were performed using the Stochastic Variational Method and yielded a minimum energy of -7.53208 Hartree for the L=0 ground state. Unlike previous calculations of this system, the system was found to be…
Energy--angle differential and total probabilities of positron creation in slow supercritical collisions of two identical heavy nuclei are calculated beyond the monopole approximation. The time-dependent Dirac equation (TDDE) for positrons…
A mechanism of disappearance and formation of the Efimov levels of the helium ^4He_3 trimer is studied when the force of interatomic interaction is changed. The resonances including virtual levels are calculated by the method based on the…
In previous papers we have proposed a method for the ab initio calculation of fully differential cross-sections for electron scattering in liquids and applied it to liquid argon, xenon and krypton. In this paper, we extend the procedure to…
The interaction of $\rm{K}^{-}$ with protons is characterised by the presence of several coupled channels, systems like ${\rm \overline{K}^0}$n and $\pi\Sigma$ with a similar mass and the same quantum numbers as the $\rm{K}^{-}$p state. The…
We apply a new highly efficient method of solving Faddeev-Merkuriev equations to multi-channel scattering calculations of the antihydrogen formation cross section for antiproton scattering off the ground and excited states of the…
The energetically lowest five states of a helium atom are: He($1^1S$), He($2^3S$), He($2^1S$), He($2^3P$), and He($2^1P$). Long-range interaction coefficients $C_3$, $C_6$, $C_8$, $C_9$, and $C_{10}$ for all $S-S$ and $S-P$ pairs of these…
Much progress in the theory of positron scattering on atoms has been made in the ten years since the review of Surko, Gribakin and Buckman [J. Phys. B 38, R57 (2005)]. We review this progress for few-electron targets with a particular…
For heliumlike uranium, the energies of the singly-excited $1sns$, $1snp$, and $1snd$ states with $n\leq 4$ and the probabilities of the one-photon $1s3d\to 1s2p$, $1s3p\to 1s2s$, $1s3p\to 1s2p$ and $1s4d\to 1s2p$ transitions are evaluated.…
We consider the production of ultrarelativistic positronium (Ps) in $\gamma A \to Ps + A$ and $e A \to Ps + e A$ processes where $A$ is an atom or a nucleus with charge $Ze$. For the photoproduction of para- and ortho-Ps and the…