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The Integral Over 2 Spherical Bessel Functions Multiplied by a Gaussian

Nuclear Theory 2020-08-18 v2

Abstract

In this paper, the integral \pmatrix{\lambda_1 &\lambda_2 &\lambda_3\cr 0 &0 &0\cr}\, \int_0^\infty \, r^{\lambda_3+2}\, \exp{(-\alpha r^2)}\, j_{\lambda_1}(k_1r) \,j_{\lambda_2}(k_2r) \,dr, where k1k_1, k2k_2 and α\alpha are positive, is evaluated analytically. The result is a finite sum over the modified spherical Bessel function of the first kind. This result will be useful for nuclear scattering calculations, where harmonic oscillator nuclear wavefunctions are used or when evaluating momentum space matrix elements for a Gaussian potential.

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@article{arxiv.1908.07374,
  title  = {The Integral Over 2 Spherical Bessel Functions Multiplied by a Gaussian},
  author = {Rami Mehrem},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.07374},
  year   = {2020}
}

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