Three-body recombination for protons moving in a strong magnetic field

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 107011-107014

  Robicheaux, F ^a   Hanson, James D ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROGEN; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY;

COULOMB FORCE; MAXWELL-BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION;

PROTONS;

EID: 5444246117     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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