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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 91, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.91.032702
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- NSF (US National Science Foundation) [PHY-1306407]
- NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) [11328404]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1306407] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We study the proton-hydrogen collision in the energy range from 0 to 5 K where the hyperfine structure of the hydrogen atom becomes important. A proper multichannel treatment of the hyperfine structure is found to be crucial at cold temperatures compared to the elastic approximation traditionally used at higher temperatures. Both elastic and hyperfine-changing inelastic processes are investigated, using both the multichannel quantum-defect theory (MQDT) and the coupled-channel numerical method. Results from the two methods show excellent agreement with MQDT providing an efficient and basically analytic description of the proton-hydrogen interaction throughout this energy range. We also discuss the validity of the elastic approximation and its relation to other methods.
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