LOW-ENERGY INELASTIC-COLLISIONS OF EXCITED HYDROGEN MESIC ATOMS

The advanced adiabatic approach (AAA) previously proposed for the desc ription of collision problems in atomic physics is extended to the spe cific case of mesic atom collisions in excited states n greater than o r equal to 2. Calculations of the muon transfer and Coulomb deexcitati on rates in collisions of (p mu)(n), (d mu)(n), and (t mu)(n) muonic a toms in excited states n=3,4,5 with hydrogen isotopes p,d,t are presen ted. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.