Cold three-body collisions of H with alkali atoms
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Abstract
We have studied three-body collisions involving some commonly used alkali atoms. In particular, for spin-polarized H+H+Li, H+H+Na, H+H+K, H+H+Rb, and H+H+Cs systems, we have calculated the three-body recombination rates, elastic atom-diatom cross sections, and three-body bound state energies. We solved the three-body Schr{\"o}dinger equation in the hyperspherical adiabatic representation using realistic two-body potentials to build the three-body interactions. The calculations cover energies up to 0.5 Kelvin and partial wave contributions up to $J$=$5$.
*Supported by the National Science Foundation and Air Force Office of Scientific Research.