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shape resonance [′Shāp ‚rez·ən·əns]

(quantum mechanics)

A broad resonance or peak in the cross section of a scattering process that reflects the shape of the potential between projectile and target; this shape consists typically of a barrier separating an inner deep well from a shallow, asymptotically vanishing potential at large separation distances.

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