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Internal Excitation, Inelastic Scattering

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Scattering Theory

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In this chapter, arbitrary internal excitations of projectile and/or target are considered, which enables the description of inelastic scattering via the appropriate coupled-channel equations. The chapter contains the theory Feshbach resonances, as opposed to single-channel shape resonances, and an account of multichannel quantum-defect theory, which is a powerful tool for describing Coulombic systems with attractive interactions falling off as 1/r for large values of the projectile-target separation r.

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    The treatment in this subsection is inspired by Chap. 20 of Ref. [17], where further details based on a more stringent mathematical formulation can be found.

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Friedrich, H. (2013). Internal Excitation, Inelastic Scattering. In: Scattering Theory. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 872. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38282-6_3

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