Publication Date:
2011-08-19
Description:
A recently proposed dispersion relation (DR) is tested for e-He scattering; the results show that the new DR is not satisfied. Therefore, the analytic structure of the difference amplitude, previously assumed to be nonsingular, is investigated on the negative scattering energy axis. Even under severe approximations, the difference amplitude contains both poles and branch points. This suggests, however, a useful approximation of these contributions to the DR which gives very satisfactory agreement in both e-H and e-He scattering.
Keywords:
ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
Type:
Physical Review A - General Physics, 3rd Series (ISSN 0556-2791); 37; 1415-142
Format:
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