Three-potential formalism for the three-body Coulomb scattering problem

Abstract

We propose a three-potential formalism for the three-body Coulomb scattering problem. The corresponding integral equations are mathematically well-behaved and can succesfully be solved by the Coulomb-Sturmian separable expansion method. The results show perfect agreements with existing low-energy $n-d$ and $p-d$ scattering calculations.

Phys. Rev. C 55 March (1997), 19 pages, revtex, 1 postscript figure