"Feshbach resonance" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Feshbach resonances [plural]
Etymology: Named after American physicist Herman Feshbach. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} Feshbach resonance (countable and uncountable, plural Feshbach resonances)
  1. (physics) The situation where two slow atoms collide and temporarily stick together, forming an unstable compound with a short lifetime. It is a feature of many-body systems in which a bound state is achieved if the coupling(s) between at least one internal degree of freedom and the reaction coordinates, which lead to dissociation, vanish. Wikipedia link: Herman Feshbach Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Physics Synonyms: Fano-Feshbach resonance

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