Abstract
We study three-body recombination in the helium-helium-silver system at cold collision energies. The three-body Schrödinger equation is solved combining the slow variable discretization and adiabatic approaches with the -matrix propagation method, in order to calculate the product-state-selective total and partial recombination rates in the Ag system. Recombination at collision energies less than 10 mK is found to take place dominantly to the product molecule in its least bound state, while the three atoms recombine mainly to the molecule in its ground state at higher collision energies.
- Received 20 November 2023
- Revised 16 March 2024
- Accepted 25 March 2024
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.109.042814
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