A specified asymptotic configuration of the particles and their internal quantum states in quantum scattering. An incoming channel can scatter into several outgoing channels; S-matrix elements give their probability amplitudes with a stated probability current normalization. A channel can be energetically inaccessible even when other channels are open.
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