Published January 1990 | Version v1
Journal article

Dirac potentials in a coupled channel approach to inelastic scattering

  • 1. Department of Physics, 174 West 18th Avenue, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 (USA)
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 5XH, (United Kingdom)
  • 3. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (USA)

Description

It has been shown that there exist transformations that can be used to change the Lorentz transformation character of potentials, which appear in the Dirac equation for elastic scattering. We consider the situation for inelastic scattering described by coupled channel Dirac equations. We examine a two-level problem where both the ground and excited states are assumed to have zero spin. Even in this simple case we have not found an appropriate transformation. However, if the excited state has zero excitation energy it is possible to find a transformation

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review, C
Journal Volume
41
Journal Issue
1
Series
Phys. Rev., C.
Journal Page Range
370-371
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCA