Final technical report on Contract N00014-81-K-0759 (Oregon University, Eugene). Report for 1 July 1981-30 September 1987

Technical Report · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6934246

Girardeau, M D

A new second-quantization representation was derived for low-energy positron-hydrogen scattering. A new mechanism is proposed for atomic recombination in plasmas, whereby the binding energy is carried away by a plasmon. It is suggested that this mechanism may compete with radiative and three-body modes in the case of recombination to sufficiently highly-excited and perturbed states of hydrogen. A procedure for calculation of the transition rate is outlined in a model which treats the plasma oscillations by the Bohm-Pines canonical transformation and the atomic bound states by a second canonical transformation.

• Research Organization: Oregon Univ., Eugene (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6934246
• Report Number(s): AD-A-192147/7/XAB; QFT-16
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

640304* -- Atomic
Molecular & Chemical Physics-- Collision Phenomena
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
ATOM COLLISIONS
COLLISIONS
DOCUMENT TYPES
ELEMENTS
ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS
EXCITATION
HYDROGEN
KINETICS
NONMETALS
PLASMONS
POSITRON COLLISIONS
POSITRON-ATOM COLLISIONS
PROGRESS REPORT
QUANTIZATION
QUASI PARTICLES
REACTION KINETICS
SCATTERING
SECOND QUANTIZATION
TRANSFORMATIONS