Regge poles and the Watson-Sommerfeld transformation in low-energy atomic collisions
- 11 March 1975
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Vol. 8 (4), 577-587
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/8/4/017
Abstract
The usefulness of complex angular momentum techniques is examined in the context of low-energy atomic collisions. For elastic e-Ar collisions at energies between 50 eV and 200 eV the observed structure in the differential cross sections is reproduced by the contribution from three Regge poles. For a Lennard-Jones potential representing p-Ar collisions the contributions from many poles are significant and the interference between these contributions leads to serious numerical difficulties in the application of the Watson-Sommerfeld transformation. The Remler model is shown to give a reliable phenomenological procedure for fitting measured differential cross sections for ion-atom collisions, even though the physical basis of the model is questionable.Keywords
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