0612175v1

related topics
{energy, state, states}
{equation, function, exp}
{cos, sin, state}
{temperature, thermal, energy}
{level, atom, field}
{information, entropy, channel}
{wave, scattering, interference}
{group, space, representation}
{time, wave, function}
{state, algorithm, problem}
{state, states, entangled}
{spin, pulse, spins}

Hyperspherical elliptic coordinates treatment of muon transfer from muonic hydrogen to atomic oxygen

Arnaud Dupays, Bruno Lepetit, J. Alberto Beswick, Carlo Rizzo, Dimitar Bakalov

abstract: Quantum-mechanical calculations of muon transfer between muonic hydrogen and an oxygen nuclei for $s$ waves and collision energies in the range $10^{-3} - 10^3$ eV, are presented. Close-coupling time-independent Schr\"odinger equations, written in terms of hyperspherical elliptic coordinates were integrated along the hyper-radius to obtain the partial and total muon-transfer probabilities. The results show the expected Wigner-Bethe threshold behavior up to collision energies of the order of $10^{-2}$ eV and pronounced maxima at $10^2$ eV which can be interpreted in terms of crossings between potential energy curves corresponding to the entrance channel state $(\mu p)_{1s} + \mO$ and two product channels which asymptotically correlate to $p + (\mO\mu)_{n=5,6}$. The population of the final states with different orbital angular momenta is found to be essentially independent of energy in the range considered in this work. This can be attributed to a strong selection rule for the conservation of the quantum number associated to one of the elliptic hyperangles.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0612175
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
6 pages, 7 figures
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevA.68.062506
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0612175
journal_ref:
Phys. Rev. A, 68, 062506 (2003)
created:
2006-12-20

Full article ▸

related documents
0612039v1
0505205v2
0304108v4
9808041v1
9802024v2
0512135v1
0606216v2
0208144v2
0603042v1
0401150v1
0008048v1
0603123v3
0209119v1
9605001v1
0508172v2
0507266v1
0203024v1
0312030v1
0508185v2
0204139v1
0702078v2
9904064v1
0205123v1
0506022v2
0506156v2