Four-Body Treatment of the Hydrogen-Antihydrogen System

• Main Author: Stegeby, Henrik
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kemi - Ångström 2012
• Subjects: Antimatter; antihydrogen; four-body system; Adiabatic approximation; Born-Oppenheimer; elastic scattering; stabilization method; resonance states; coupled arrangement channels; coupled rearrangement channels; Gaussian Expansion Method; Antimateria; antiväte; fyrkroppars system; adiabatisk approximation; stabilisationsmetoden; resonanstillstånd; spridningstillstånd; kopplade arrangemangskanaler
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-174015

This thesis presents a nonadiabatic (4-body) description of the hydrogen-antihydrogen system at a nonrelativistic level. The properties of the system, the rearrangement processes and the possible existence of resonance states are investigated by using a variational method for coupled arrangement channels, the Gaussian Expansion Method, and the stabilization method. The 4-body basis set is optimized by means of prediagonalization of 2-body fragments. In paper I, a mass-scaling procedure of the Born-Oppenheimer potential is introduced for the description of the relative motion between hydrogen and antihydrogen. The nonadiabaticity of the system is investigated in paper II.