The ground state of the realistic helium atom

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The ground state of the realistic helium atom is of course nondegenerate. However, consider a hypothetical helium atom in which the two electrons are replaced by two identical spin-one particles of negative charge. Neglect spin-dependent forces. For this hypothetical atom, what is the degeneracy of the ground state? Give your reasoning.

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