RESONANCE ENERGIES OF META-STABLE DT-MU-ASTERISK

Using the coupled rearrangement channel method, we have calculated res onance energies for meta-stable states of the molecular ion dt mu ass ociated with the adiabatic 3 sigma potential. The vacuum polarization effect was taken into account by direct inclusion of the Uehling poten tial in our three-body Hamiltonian. Comparing with the solution of the pure Coulombic Schrodinger equation a shift of approximately +0.1 eV is found. Thus the infinite series of states of the Coulombic Schrodin ger equation becomes truncated. Eleven states remain semi-bound, five of them with binding energy smaller than the dissociation energy of th e D-2 molecule, facilitating formation of dt mu in t mu(2s)-D-2 scatt ering by means of the Vesman-mechanism.