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Particle-dimer scattering below and above the three-body threshold is studied using Faddeev differential equations. Correllations between the observables are shown and some analogies between three-nucleon and three-atom systems are…
We study inelastic collisions in a pure, trapped sample of Feshbach molecules made of bosonic cesium atoms in the quantum halo regime. We measure the relaxation rate coefficient for decay to lower-lying molecular states and study the…
We study the collisional properties of an ultracold mixture of cesium atoms and dimers close to a Feshbach resonance near 550G in the regime of positive $s$-wave scattering lengths. We observe an atom-dimer loss resonance that is related to…
We have performed high-precision measurements of the coherent neutron scattering lengths of gas phase molecular hydrogen and deuterium using neutron interferometry. After correcting for molecular binding and multiple scattering from the…
Precise numerical calculations of bound states of a three-atomic Helium cluster are performed. The modern techniques of solution of Faddeev equations are combined to obtain an efficient numerical scheme. Binding energies and other…
The first ever numerical solution of five-body Faddeev-Yakubovsky equations is presented in this work. Modern realistic Nucleon-Nucleon Hamiltonians have been tested when describing low energy elastic neutron scattering on $^4$He nucleus.…
The influence of e-h scattering on the conductivity and magnetotransport of 2D semimetallic HgTe is studied both theoretically and experimentally. The presence of e-h scattering leads to the friction between electron and holes resulting in…
We report a 0.08 % measurement of the bound neutron scattering length of $^4$He using neutron interferometry. The result is $b = (3.0982 \pm 0.0021 \mbox{ [stat]} \pm 0.0014 \mbox{ [sys]}) \mbox{ fm}$. The corresponding free atomic…
The discrete Efimov scaling behavior, well-known in the low-energy spectrum of three-body bound systems for large scattering lengths (unitary limit), is identified in the energy dependence of atom-molecule elastic cross-section in mass…
We have combined the detailed He I recombination model of Smits with the collisional transitions of Sawey & Berrington in order to produce new accurate helium emissivities that include the effects of collisional excitation from both the 2…
We design models for helium in matrices like aerogel, Vycor or Geltech from a manifestly microscopic point of view. For that purpose, we calculate the dynamic structure function of 4He on Si substrates and between two Si walls as a function…
We present a new measurement of the s-wave scattering length a of spin-polarized helium atoms in the 2^3S_1 metastable state. Using two-photon photoassociation spectroscopy and dark resonances we measure the energy E_{v=14}= -91.35 +/- 0.06…
I give an overview of experimental and theoretical results for antiproton and antihydrogen scattering with atoms and molecules (in particular H, He). At low energies ($\lesssim1$~keV) there are practically no experimental data available.…
Our earlier Faddeev three-body study in the $K^-$-deuteron scattering length, $A_{K^-d}$, is revisited here in the light of the recent developments in two fronts: {\it (i)} the improved chiral unitary approach to the theoretical description…
Quartet n-d scattering lengths are calculated using second-generation nucleon-nucleon potential models. These results are compared to the corresponding quantity recently calculated using chiral perturbation theory.
The nd doublet and quartet scattering lengths have been calculated based on the modern NN and 3N interactions. We also studied the effect of the electromagnetic interactions in the form introduced in AV18. Switching them off for the various…
Measured differential elastic scattering cross sections of 17.71-, 20.97-, and 23.72-MeV neutrons from liquid helium-4 were re-evaluated and corrected for sample size and multiple scattering effects by means of a Monte Carlo technique…
We report the first experimental determination of the interspecies $s$-wave scattering length\,($a_{34}$) between the $2\,^3S_1\,(F=3/2,m_F=3/2)$ state of $^3$He$^*$ and the $2\,^3S_1\,(m_J=1)$ state of $^4$He$^*$. We determine $a_{34}$ by…
The differential cross section for scattering of the astrophysically important X-ray emission lines by a helium atom is calculated with an accuracy sufficient for astrophysical applications. For a helium atom an energy ``gap'' (due to 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…