Recent Results in Charged-Composite Particle Scattering

Abstract

A brief overview is given of some recent advances in charged-composite particle scattering. On the theoretical side, I address the three-charged particle wave function asymptotics, the nonperturbative investigation of the long-range behaviour of the optical potential, and the question of the compactness of the kernels of the momentum space integral equations for three charged particles. Among the more practical developments, I report on results of numerical calculations of so-called "triangle" amplitudes, a new, simple and very efficient higher-energy approximation for the latter, and a breakthrough in the quantitative treatment of Coulomb effects in proton-deuteron elastic scattering with realistic nuclear potentials.