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Helium-antihydrogen interaction: the Born-Oppenheimer potential energy curve
Krzysztof Strasburger1, Henryk Chojnacki
1Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland. strasbur@chkw386.ch.pwr.wroc.pl
Physical Review Letters
|April 17, 2002
Abstract:
The interaction of atomic antihydrogen with helium has been studied within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. The linear combination of explicitly correlated Gaussian functions was used as the ansatz for the wave function of light particles. The potential energy curve with the minimum at 3.63 bohr and the barrier at 2.42 bohr has been obtained.