APPROACH TO 3-BODY SCATTERING PROBLEM

We derive some new equations for the wavefunction for the three-body scattering problem using the partial-wavefunction approach." All scattering processes are solutions of inhomogeneous coupled integral equations for the scattered parts of the total wavefunction. We show how the Pauli principle is incorporated when some or all of the particles are identical. This leads to a reduction in the number of independent scattered partial wavefunctions when some of the particles are identical. The kernels in the integral equations contain no δ functions but each scattered partial wavefunction does have a self-coupling term. We apply the method to the scattering of three identical bosons interacting through zero-range pair potentials. The method gives the same equation for this problem as obtained by the Faddeev T-matrix approach."