Theory Seminar

DATE: 2006-03-20 11:00 -
PLACE: Kenkyu Honkan 2F RM 220
TITLE: Low Energy \bar{p}¡ÜH Collisions in Hyperspheroidal Coordinates
CONTACT: Tango
SPEAKER: Prof. A.V. Matveenko   (JINR, Dubna, Russia)
LANGUAGE: English
ABSTRACT: Recently¡¤Esry and Sadeghpour (2003)¡¤and Hesse, Le and Lin (2004)¡¤have reported calculations of protonium formation in \bar{p} + H collisions at low energies, using hyperspherical coordinates in a hyperradial adiabatic approach. In order to make the problem tractable both groups were forced to introduce an artificial proton mass m'_p¡á17.824a.u. and m'_p¡á100a.u., respectively¡¤which raises doubts as to the physical relevance of their results and conclusions. Here we make use of the hyperspheroidal coordinates in a hope to attack the same problem in basically the same approach but without need for changing the physical particle masses.

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