Validity of Neglecting Continuum Contributions in Two-Body Rearrangement Collisions
Validity of Neglecting Continuum Contributions in Two-Body Rearrangement Collisions is a scholarly work, published in 1978 in ''Physical Review Letters''. The main subjects of the publication include scattering, classical mechanics, physics, deuterium, Born approximation, many-body problem, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, nuclear structure, low-energy electron diffraction, nuclear physics, breakup, formalism, and statistical physics. The neglect of $n$-body breakup contributions, $n>~3$, is a widely used but previously untested approximation occurring in the analysis of almost all atomic, molecular, and nuclear collisions.