Energetic collisions of charged projectiles with atomic bound states

Use of the multiple-scattering expansion of the three-body amplitude for atomic direct and exchange reactions requires the evaluation of multidimensional integrals involving the two-body Coulomb T-operator. We present here numerical results for the first-order terms, both for the attractive and repulsive case. Furthermore, easy-to-calculate approximations are described which in their domain of validity (i) reproduce the exact amplitudes to high accuracy, and (ii) also serve to derive interesting theoretical results. (orig.)