Stokes' cradle: normal three-body collisions between wetted particles

Three-body forces between charged colloidal particles.

Within nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann theory we calculate the pair and triplet interactions between charged colloidal spheres, specifically in the nonlinear regime of low salt concentrations and high charges. We find repulsive pair interactions and attractive triplet interactions. Within a van der Waals-like mean-field theory we estimate in which parameter regime a gas-liquid coexistence is to be ...

Three–Body Decays of SUSY Particles

We analyze the decays of charginos, neutralinos, gluinos and the first/second generation squarks in the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model, focusing on the three–body decays in scenarios where the ratio tan β of vacuum expectation values of the two Higgs doublet fields is large. We show that the three– body decays of the next–to–lightest neutralinos (lightest charginos) into...

Adhesion forces between wetted solid surfaces.

We investigate in this paper the influence of wetting films on the adhesion forces between macroscopic solid surfaces connected by a liquid bridge. We show that the capillary forces are dependent on the interactions governing the wetting layers, and that those interactions may be determined from the measurement of the capillary force in the presence of a condensable vapor. We illustrate those r...

Two and Three-Body Interactions between CO, H2O, and HClO4

Intermolecular interactions of different configurations in the HOClO3···CO and HOClO3···H2O dyad and CO···HOClO3···H2O triad systems have been studied at MP2/6-311++G(2d,2p) computational level. Molecular geometries, binding energies, cooperative energies, many-body interaction energies, and Energy Decomposition Analysis (EDA) were eval...

Comparison of Molecular and Gravitational Three-Body Collisions