Energy Thresholds of Stability of Three-Particle Systems (original) (raw)

We have studied the general properties of the energy thresholds of stability for a three-particle system with short-range interaction. A wide region of the interaction constants and various ratios of the masses of particles are considered. The specific effects characteristic of the near-threshold stationary energy levels of three particles are revealed. The asymptotic estimates are obtained for the thresholds at some limiting cases, and the high-precision variational calculations of the thresholds for various values of the interaction constants and the masses of particles are carried out.