On the use of analytic ansatz three-body wave functions in the study of (e, 2e) and related processes

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 455, Issue 1981, 1999, Pages 349-383

  Lucey, S P ^a   Rasch, J ^b   Whelan, Colm T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Laboratoire de Physique Moléculaire et des Collisions   (France)

Author keywords

(e,2e) experiment; Few body problem; Ionization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001100554     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1999.0317     Document Type: Article

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