https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2007-00323-2
A solution of the Coulomb three-body problem
Theoretical Physics Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, 380 009, India
Corresponding author: a spaul@prl.res.in
Received:
4
September
2007
Revised:
23
October
2007
Published online:
28
November
2007
In this work, a final state wave function is constructed which represents a solution of the three-body Schrödinger equation. The formulated wave function is superimposed of one basic analytical function with various parameters. The coefficients of these basic functions involved in final state wave function can be easily calculated from a set of linear equations. The coefficients depend only on incident energy of the system. The process can also be prolonged for application to the problems more than three bodies.
PACS: 34.80.Dp – Atomic excitation and ionization by electron impact / 34.10.+x – General theories and models of atomic and molecular collisions and interactions / 31.15.Ja – Hyperspherical methods
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