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Phys. Rev. A 65, 032721 (2002) [7 pages]

Resonances in positronium hydride

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Joseph Di Rienzi
College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21210

Richard J. Drachman
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

Received 26 September 2001; published 26 February 2002

We reexamine the problem of calculating the positions and widths of the lowest-lying resonances in the Ps+H scattering system that consists of two electrons, one positron and one proton. The first of these resonances, for L=0, was found by the methods of complex rotation and stabilization, and later described as a Feshbach resonance lying close to a bound state in the closed-channel e++H- system. Recently, results for the L=1 and 2 scattering states were published, and it was found, surprisingly, that there is a large shift in the positions of these resonances. In this paper we repeat the analysis for L=1 and find an unexpected explanation for the shift.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.65.032721
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.65.032721
PACS:
34.50.-s, 36.10.Dr