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PUBLICATIONS

Ultracold Collisions of Metastable Helium Atoms

Published

Author(s)

P J. Leo, V Venturi, I B. Whittingham, J F. Babb

Abstract

We report scattering lengths for the 1ς+g, 3ς+u, 5ς+g adiabatic molecular potentials relevant to collisions of two metastable 2 3S helium atoms as a function of the uncertainty in these potentials. These scattering lengths are used to calculate experimentally observable scattering lengths, elastic cross sections, and inelastic rates for any combination of states of the colliding atoms, at temperatures where the Wigner threshold approximation is valid.
Citation
Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics)
Volume
64
Issue
No. 4
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

metastable helium atoms, ultracold collisions

Citation

Leo, P. , Venturi, V. , Whittingham, I. and Babb, J. (2001), Ultracold Collisions of Metastable Helium Atoms, Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics) (Accessed October 11, 2025)

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Created October 1, 2001, Updated February 17, 2017
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