Coordinate-space Faddeev-Hahn-type approach to three-body charge-transfer reactions involving exotic particles - art. no. 022711

Low-energy muon-transfer cross sections and rates in collisions of muonic a toms with hydrogen isotopes are calculated using a six-state close-coupling approximation to coordinate-space Faddeev-Hahn-type equations. In the muon ic case satisfactory results are obtained for all hydrogen isotopes and the experimentaly observed strong isotopic dependence of transfer rates is als o reproduced. A comparison with results of other theoretical and available experimental works is presented. The present model also leads to good trans fer cross sections in the well-understood problem of antihydrogen formation in antiproton-positronium collision.