JJAP Conference Proceedings
Online ISSN : 2758-2450
3rd China-Japan Joint Workshop on Positron Science (JWPS2017)
Session ID : 011004
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Theory and related experiments on physics and chemistry
Coupled channel study of antihydrogen-hydrogen molecular resonance state
Takuma YamashitaYasushi Kino
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We report a theoretical study of antihydrogen-hydrogen molecular resonance states consisting of a positron, an antiproton, an electron and a proton. The four particles strongly correlate and show different character from the hydrogen molecule. Because of the non-separability of the positron and electron motions from the antiproton and proton motions, the adiabatic approximation breaks down at the short antiproton-proton distance. Based on a non-adiabatic method, we directly solve the four-body problem and obtain the resonance energies and widths. In order to examine the roles of positron–antiproton and electron–proton correlations as well as positron–electron and antiproton–proton correlations, we introduce two different types of coordinate systems. One is suited for describing an antihydrogen–hydrogen configuration, and the other is a positronium–protonium configuration. The antihydrogen–hydrogen configuration contributes to the existence of the molecular resonance states, and the positronium–protonium configuration makes the resonance states unstable. Mixing of the two configurations results in an antihydrogen-hydrogen molecular resonance state, and the resonance state has an energy of −0.077 9(3) a.u. from the antihydrogen–hydrogen dissociation threshold with its lifetime 16 (2) fs.

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