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Scattering States of Three-Body Systems with the Hyperspherical Adiabatic Method

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In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of employing the Hyperspherical Adiabatic (HA) basis set to describe continuum states of the Helium trimer molecule.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E6BT, London, UK

    P. Barletta

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Piazza Torricelli 2, 56100, Pisa, Italy

    A. Kievsky

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This article is based on the presentation by P. Barletta at the Fifth Workshop on Critical Stability, Erice, Sicily.

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Barletta, P., Kievsky, A. Scattering States of Three-Body Systems with the Hyperspherical Adiabatic Method. Few-Body Syst 45, 123–125 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00601-009-0012-0

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