Hydrogen molecule-antihydrogen atom potential energy surface and scattering calculations

B P Mant; M M Law; K Strasburger

doi:10.1088/1361-6455/ab312e

Hydrogen molecule-antihydrogen atom potential energy surface and scattering calculations

B P Mant, M M Law (Corresponding Author), K Strasburger

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We have calculated ground state interaction energies for an antihydrogen atom and a hydrogen molecule within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. Leptonic energies were calculated using a large basis set of explicitly correlated Gaussian functions. Energies were calculated at over 2800 geometries including different proton-proton distances. The energies have been fit to functional forms using a neural network for the short-range interaction which is combined with asymptotic formulas at long range. A two-dimensional rigid rotor and a three-dimensional atom-molecule potential energy surface (PES) have been determined. Rigid-rotor scattering calculations on these surfaces have been carried out using the S-matrix Kohn variational method with a two-dimensional Gaussian basis set. We have calculated cross sections for elastic, rotationally inelastic and annihilation collisions on the two-dimensional PES. This includes the first calculation of leptonic annihilation for this system.

Original language	English
Article number	185201
Journal	Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
Volume	52
Issue number	18
Early online date	23 Aug 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ab312e
Publication status	Published - 28 Sep 2019

Keywords

antihydrogen
matter-antimatter interactions
low energy scattering
potential energy surface
elastic scattering
inelastic scattering
annihilation
CORRELATED GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS
S-MATRIX VERSION
VARIATIONAL CALCULATIONS
TRIATOMIC-MOLECULES
GROUND-STATE
HE
DYNAMICS
SYSTEMS
CHARGE

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Mant, B. P., Law, M. M., & Strasburger, K. (2019). Hydrogen molecule-antihydrogen atom potential energy surface and scattering calculations. Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics, 52(18), [185201]. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ab312e

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