Very accurate non-Born–Oppenheimer variational calculations of the ground state of e+LiH have been performed using explicitly correlated Gaussian functions with preexponential factors dependent on powers of the internuclear distance. In order to determine the positron detachment energy of e+LiH and the dissociation energy corresponding to the e+LiH fragmentation into HPs and Li+ we also calculated non-BO energies of HPs, LiH, and Li+. For all the systems the calculations provided the lowest ever-reported variational upper-bounds to the ground state energies. Annihilation rates of HPs and e+LiH were also computed. The dissociation energy of e+LiH into HPs and Li+ was determined to be 0.036 548 hartree.

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