COLD COLLISIONS OF GROUND-STATE HE-4 - GIANT S-WAVE SCATTERING CROSS-SECTIONS

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MESTER, JC [1 ]
MEYER, ES [1 ]
REYNOLDS, MW [1 ]
HUBER, TE [1 ]
ZHAO, Z [1 ]
FREEDMAN, B [1 ]
KIM, J [1 ]
SILVERA, IF [1 ]
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[1] HARVARD UNIV,LYMAN LAB PHYS,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02138
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.1343
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We have measured integral elastic cross sections for ground state He-4-He-4 scattering at collision energies from 1.35 to 0.5 K using a novel atomic beam apparatus built into a dilution refrigerator. Scattering is almost pure s wave, and is predicted to be enormous due to a possibly bound state near the continuum. The effective integral cross section ranges from 200 to 1000 angstrom2 as collision energy is reduced in our experiment. These cross sections are in agreement with the values predicted using the latest analytical potential of Aziz and Slaman.
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