Questions tagged [scattering]
Scattering is a general term for several physical processes in which radiation of some sort changes direction due to an interaction with a particle. Scattering can be classified by the type of radiation (ie, electromagnetic, x-ray, neutron), or by the relative sizes of the wave and the particle (ie, Rayleigh, Mie, geometric).
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Justifying that the gold nucleus is at rest in a Rutherford experiment
This is an example on the Rutherford Experiment from Young and Freedman's University Physics.
In the last paragraph of the solution the book states that it is valid to assume that the gold nucleus ...
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Extracting electron wave functions from experiments
In nuclear and nucleon physics it’s quite standard to extract electromagnetic form factors – which are the Fourier transforms of charge and current distributions – from elastic electron-nucleon or ...
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Asymptotic states and physical states in QFT scattering theory
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In the scattering theory of QFT, one may impose the asymptotic conditions on the field:
\begin{align}
\lim_{t\to\pm\infty} \langle \alpha | \hat{\phi}(t,\mathbf{x}) | \beta \rangle = \sqrt{Z} \...
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Jet events and Deeep Inelastic Scattering (Scaling Behavior) at the same time?
I am a philosopher of physics, so I already apologize for potential ignorance. I have also graduated in physics, but I now analyze problems on another level and also forgot some of the mathematical ...
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What is the energy of a photon in an electron-muon scattering?
Currently I am reading about this process in an Introduction to Quantum Field Theory by Peskin and Schroeder (pages 153-154). It should be mentioned that they are working in a center-of-mass (CM) ...
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Can you create fusion through scattering?
Could you scatter deuteron molecules (D-D) at high energies into some heavy metal target such that at the time of impact the bond in the deuteron molecule is compressed to such a degree that fusion is ...
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Binary black hole merging condition
Assuming two black holes with the same rest mass $m$ collid coming from infinity with velocity $v$ and impact parameter $b$. Lets ignore spin at first. For which values of $v$ and $b$ would these ...
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Could the scattering of molecules lead to bond compression?
Suppose you were to send a fast moving binary molecule (such as H-H) at another large target atom A such that the molecule is aligned with the direction of its travel towards the target atom. In other ...
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Inconsistency in scattering length of spherical well potential
I'm trying to understand the scattering length of the spherical well potential
$$V(r)=\begin{cases}-V_0&r<r_0\\ 0&r>r_0\end{cases}$$
The $V_0>0$ (attractive) case is fairly well ...
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How to compute an integral for double scattering process? [migrated]
I need help with the following integral:
\begin{equation}
\int_{0}^{\pi}\int_{0}^{2\pi} \frac{(sm_2^2+\ s^2)C(A+B)+s\left(m_2^2+s\right)C^2 }{AB} \sin\theta_1 \ d\phi_1d\theta_1
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where $...
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Doubt in $e^{+}e^{-}\rightarrow W^{+}W^{-}$ scattering
I am trying to understand how to compute the scattering amplitude for the process $e^{+}e^{-}\rightarrow W^{+}W^{-}$, as a reference one could look at Peskin chapter 21.
What I do not understand is ...
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Distribution of scattered photons in cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT)
I am using MCGPU to simulate photon transport in cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). I ran an experiment, where a water cylinder containing spherical objects was irradiated. The simulation software ...
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Relation bitween Mandelstam Variables in three-body final state
What is the relation between Mandelstam variables in the three body final state?
There are 5 independent Mandelstam variables. What is the relationship between them?
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Green function in scattering theory
I'm having a bit of trouble with a step in scattering theory.
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The Schrödinger equation for a two-body scattering problem can be written as:
$$
(E - H_0) |\psi\rangle = V |\psi\rangle.
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