| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L29170/01 |
| Title: |
REARRANGEMENT SCATTERING TREATMENT OF SOME REACTIONS INVOLVING EXOTIC PARTICLES |
| Principal Investigator: |
Armour, Professor E |
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Sch of Mathematical Sciences |
| Organisation: |
University of Nottingham |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
23 July 1997 |
Ends: |
22 July 1999 |
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83,763
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In the first part of the proposed research, a PDRA and I will carry out detailed close coupling calculations of the rate of resonant dtu formation in the key reaction in the muon catalysed fusion cycle in which a tu atom collides with a DA molecule, where A is H, D or T, to form an intermediate complex which decays to give dtu. We shall use the method developed by Dr Pack and co-workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory to treat three-atom chemical reactions. Sufficiently accurate potentials will be used to describe the resonant process realistically. At the same time, a project research student will carry out calculations of scattering low-energy positrons by an excited atom made up of a proton and an antiproton. He will also carry out accurate calculations of the potential between an H atom and an antihydrogen atom (AH) using the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. In the second part of the proposed research, improvements will be made to the dtu formation rate calculations. At the same time, the PDRA, the project student and I will combine to build on the work of the student to calculate accurate annihilation rates for the AH + H reaction. Finally preliminary work will be done on extending this to the AH + He reaction and, if time, the AH + H2 reaction.
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