General theoretical description of N-body recombination.
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2009Author
Mehta, NP
Rittenhouse, ST
D'Incao, JP
Von Stecher, J
Greene, CH
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Formulas for the cross section and event rate constant describing recombination of N particles are derived in terms of general S-matrix elements. Our result immediately yields the generalized Wigner threshold scaling for the recombination of N bosons. A semianalytical formula encapsulates the overall scaling with energy and scattering length, as well as resonant modifications by the presence of N-body states near the threshold collision energy in the entrance channel. We then apply our model to the case of four-boson recombination into an Efimov trimer and a free atom.
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http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/57858http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19905635
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University of Nairobi College of Health Science
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10387]