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We develop a well-posed multiparticle Coulomb scattering problem based on asymptotic solutions of a Coulomb multichannel scattering problem constructed in the adiabatic representation. A key feature of the studied problem is that the nonadiabatic channel coupling matrix is nontrivial at large internuclear distances. We consider the scattering problem in the case with an arbitrary momentum value and study solutions for small channel coupling matrix values in detail, constructing explicit representations for the asymptotic solution of the scattering problem.
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Acknowledgments. The author is grateful to A. K. Belyaev, N. O. Elander, and E. A. Yarevsky for the useful discussions.
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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 203, No. 2, pp. 269–279, May, 2020.
This research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant No. 18-02-00492 a).
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Yakovlev, S.L. Asymptotic solution of a Coulomb multichannel scattering problem with a nonadiabatic channel coupling. Theor Math Phys 203, 664–672 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040577920050086
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