Abstract
Accurate experimental information on the long-range triplet interactions in noble fluids, as well as on the two-body potential, can be obtained from the low-density behavior of the static structure factor in the small-q region. The results here reported of a recent low-q neutron diffraction investigation in Kr, devoted to undercritical densities in the range provide important indications on the pair interactions and allow also a reliable analysis of irreducible three-body potential effects on the measured structure, from which the triple-dipole Axilrod-Teller strength is extracted with unprecedented accuracy.
- Received 16 June 1999
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.60.6682
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