THREE-BODY SCATTERING CROSS SECTION AND SINGULARITIES OF THE T-MATRIX

Cross section is a fundamental concept in collision theory. This concept hasbeen formulated for binary collisions,i.e.,collisions between two incidentparticles.As far as binary collisions are concerned,one can describe withdifferential and integrated cross sections any elementary processes includingdissociation and rearrangement as well as elastic and inelastic scattering.It isbelieved,however that besides binary collisions there are three-body colli-sions,i.e.,collisions among three incident particles.Thus it is of