Coulomb deexcitation of pionic hydrogen within close-coupling method

Abstract

The Coulomb deexcitation of $(\pi p)$ atom in collisions with the hydrogen atom has been studied in the fully quantum mechanical close-coupling approach for the first time. The total Coulomb deexcitation cross-sections of $nl\to n^{\prime }{l}^{\prime }$ transitions and $l$-averaged cross-sections are calculated for $n=3-8$ and at the relative energies $E=0.01-100$ eV. The strong interaction and vacuum polarization shifts of $ns$-states are taken into account. It is shown that the $\Delta n>1$ transitions are very important and make up a substantial fraction of the Coulomb deexcitation cross-section (up to $\sim 47$).

arXiv comment4 pages, 5 figures

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