Resonances of Multichannel Systems

Abstract

We describe structure of the T-matrices, scattering matrices, and Green functions on unphysical energy sheets in multichannel scattering problems with binary channels and in the three-body problem. Based on the explicit representations obtained for the values of T- and S-matrices on the unphysical sheets, we prove that the resonances belonging to an unphysical sheet are just those energies where the correspondingly truncated scattering matrix, taken in the physical sheet, has eigenvalue zero. We show, in addition, that eigenvectors of the truncated scattering matrix associated with its zero eigenvalue are formed of the breakup amplitudes for the respective resonant states.