Detailed balance as a check on impact parameter calculations
- 1 August 1973
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Vol. 6 (8) , 1426-1430
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/6/8/020
Abstract
It is demonstrated numerically that detailed balance indeed is well satisfied in the multi-state impact parameter formulation of proton-hydrogen atom collisions. It is also demonstrated numerically that detailed balance is a much more sensitive test of computational accuracy than is the charge conservation test usually employed in such impact parameter calculations. It is suggested that detailed balance be used as a check on all impact parameter calculations. That even agreement with detailed balance may not be a sufficient test for accuracy of the results is pointed out.Keywords
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