Unitary correlation in nuclear reaction theory

We prove that the amplitudes for the (d,p), (d,pn) and (e,e'p) reactions determining the asymptotic behavior of the exact scattering wave functions in the corresponding channels are invariant under unitary correlation operators while the spectroscopic factors are not. Moreover, the exact reaction amplitudes are not parametrized in terms of the spectroscopic factors and cannot provide a tool to determine the spectroscopic factors.Comment: 5 page

The leading asymptotic terms of the three-body Coulomb scattering wave function

The asymptotic wave function derived by Alt and Mukhamedzhanov [Phys. Rev. A 47, 2004 (1993)] and Mukhamedzhanov and Lieber [Phys. Rev. A 54, 3078 (1996)] has been refined in the region where the pair $(\beta,\gamma)$ remains close to each other while the third particle $\alpha$ is far away from them $(\rho_{\alpha} \to \infty$, $r_{\alpha}/\rho_{\alpha}\to 0)$. The improved wave function satisfies the Schr\"odinger equation up to the terms of order $O(1/{\rho_{\alpha}}^{3})$, provides the leading asymptotic terms of the three-body scattering wave function with Coulomb interactions and gives further insight into the continuum behavior of the three-charged-particle wave function and helps to obtain $3\to 3$ scattered wave. This opens up further ways of solving and analysing the three-body Schr\"odinger equation by numerical means