Abstract. Helium-3 spin-echo measurements of resonant scattering from the Si(111)-(1x1)H surface, in the energy range 4 − 14 meV, are presented. The measurements have high energy resolution yet they reveal bound state resonance (BSR) features with uniformly broad linewidths. We show that exact quantum mechanical calculations of the elastic scattering, using the existing potential for the Helium/Si(111)-(1x1)H interaction, cannot reproduce the linewidths seen in the experiment. Further calculations rule out inelastic and other mechanisms that might give rise to losses from the elastic scattering channels. We show that corrugation in the attractive part of the atom-surface potential is the most likely origin of the experimental lineshapes.
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