Scattering Definition and 821 Threads

Hello everyone, I am working on the following problem: I would like to determine the invariant Matrix element of the process ##\psi\left(p,s\right)+\phi\left(k\right)\rightarrow\psi\left(p',s'\right)+\phi\left(k'\right)## within Yukawa theory, where ##\psi\left(p,s\right)## denotes a fermion...

I want to simulate 2D TM scattered fields (microwave range) for austria profile. Austria profile has 2 circles beside each other of certain dielectric and one ring below the circles. So basically I have three dielectric objects in the domain of interest and also positions of Tx and Rx are known...

What are the best resources (books/lectures/articles) to learn Classical Electromagnetic Scattering (forward and inverse modelling)? I am an Electrical Engineer so I would prefer some resource which is from an applied perspective. My specific research topic is related to modeling and analyze 2D...

I am currently reading Particle Physics by Palash Pal. In one place, the author shows the Feynman diagram for the electron-proton scattering: Then, he writes the Feynman amplitude for the process: $$i \mathcal{M} \ = \ \left[ \bar{u}(\vec{k'}) i e \gamma^\mu u(\vec{k}) \right]...

I've read (in Hagai Netzer's book The Physics and Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei) that "Comptonization in the [black hole's accretion] disk atmosphere can increase the energy of some photons..." I thought Compton scattering could only decrease a photon's energy. What am I missing?

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I have found the following explanation: Isn't ##l \hbar = mvR## (semi-classical argument) wrong? I'd state ##mvR = \sqrt{l(l+1)} \hbar## instead. Text is coming from Introduction to Nuclear Physics; Krane, pages 87 and 88.

Hi, I'm having some trouble understanding the following result. Let's immagine a collision of two point particles in which one can be considered at rest and suppose the scattering process viewed in center of mass frame is isotropic. Then the probability of one particles to be scattered in one...

Hi all, I'm having a problem understanding a step in an arxiv paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.3566.pdf) and would like a bit of help. In equation (29) the authors have $$R = \frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{\pi}} \int dk \ e^{-(k - k_0)^2 \sigma^2} \ \Big( \frac{ k - \kappa}{ k+ \kappa} \Big)^2$$ where...

Hi! Just a couple questions on the Compton scattering calculation in P&S. I feel like I'm missing something very simple here but can't quite figure out what it is. On page 166, the amplitude to be evaluated is $$ i\mathcal M = -ie^2 \epsilon_\mu(k)\epsilon^*_\nu(k^\prime) u_R^\dagger(p^\prime)...

I was reading *Introduction to Nuclear Physics* by Krane and stumbled on the following (page 47): In Elastic scattering, the initial electron wave function is of the form ##e^{i k_i r}## (free particle of momentum ##p_i = \hbar k_i##). The scattered electron can also be regarded as a free...

Homework Statement Question: Determine the energy of the incident photon when the recoiled electrons energy is measured to 3 MeV. The angle between the incident photon and the scattered photon is 60°. Given and knowns: θ=60° (Angle between incident photon ##\gamma## and scattered photon...

Statement of the problem : "Using the definition L = r ##\times## p, prove that the direction of L is constant for an alpha (##\alpha##) particle whose scattering is shown in the diagram below. " Relevant equations : We are aware that the scattering takes place via a central force F = F(r)...

Hi, I'm reading chapter 6-3 of Lamarsh's book "Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Theory". Here it is discussed the very idealistic case of Hydrogen being used as a Moderator (without adsorption). The moderator is: - infinte - homogeneous - with uniformly distributed source emitting at constant...

Hi all, I recently started learning about quantum scattering in school and came across a few things I find confusing. Thanks in advance for any assistance! 1. Plane wave approximation to incident waves. In past QM courses, I kept reading that plane waves were not "physical" since they do not...

I have been looking online and it is stated to be 1nm, but these are posts around 6 years old: https://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=3662 https://www.researchgate.net/post/Whats_the_measurement_limit_of_dynamic_light_scattering I am wondering if the limiting resolution has improved...

Hi, I'm reading Lamarsh's book "Introduction to nuclear reactor theory" and in chapter two there is a brief description of neutron scattering theory. I have a few questions about it. 1) In the book the author says that it is easier to analyze the interaction process in the center of mass frame...

Greetings. So... let us consider a particle moving in the yz plane, coming from the infinite towards a region were a gravitational potential is appreciable. The Lagrangian of the system is \mathcal{L} = \frac{1}{2}\mu (\dot{r}^2+r^2{\dot \phi}^2) + \frac{G\,m\,M}{r} where \mu is the reduced...

a prism is supposed to scatter light rays and separate it into rainbow,then why in a prism periscope the prism send light rays to a particular direction instead of scattering?

Homework Statement Homework Equations N/A The Attempt at a Solution I am trying to complete the last part of this question, part 5(c). My professor has told me that the form factor $$F(q)\rightarrow1$$ as $$q\rightarrow0$$ but I am unsure how to show this. I believe that $$\lim_{{q...

I've read that UV light cannot "penetrate" the atmosphere as easily during winter. But what does this exactly mean? My hypothesis is that due to rayleigh scattering, since light with smaller wave lengths scatter more, the UV light doesn't end up reaching the surface of the Earth (i.e. gets...

Attempting to understand the following: Compton scattering can happen either (a) an electron could absorb a photon and later emit a photon, or (b) an electron could emit a photon and later absorb a photon. OK, the maths works out, but I am trying to get intuition on track. These two are...

Hello, I just had a little debate with my professor after taking my final exam. He had given us an additional formula sheet at the last second (hand written on the projector) which confused me. The question was a 7 MeV neutron collides with several U-238 atoms before reaching 2 MeV. How many...

If I'm scattering electrons off of an atomic nucleus, can I infer any information about the duration of time the electron was accelerating by looking at the wavelength of the emitted bremsstrahlung radiation? I am wondering if it would be possible to derive a time interval between electron...

Previously I posted a problem concerning Electron-neutrino scattering, but as I couldn't describe the problem clearly, so I am trying to post the problem using latex codes to present it in the correct way. For a couple of months, I am trying to calculate the invariant amplitude of the Neutrino...

For a couple of months, I am trying to calculate the invariant amplitude of the Neutrino electron scattering in the standard model (SM) approach where I am not considering any kind of approximation and using the SM propagator for W Boson and Z Boson. I tried to do as following, find out the...

If a sound wave hits multiple scatterers spaced closer than the wavelength and moving fast but at different velocities how is the reflective beam is affected?

Homework Statement Photons incident upon free electrons that are essen- tially at rest are scattered by the electrons. As a consequence, the electrons gain kinetic energy. How do the frequency and speed of the photons present after the scattering compare to those present before the scattering...

I’ve been self-studying quantum mechanics for a while, and currently looking at scattering theory, using chapters in books by Shankar, Sakurai, and John R. Taylor’s Scattering Theory text. But was wondering if there are any good sources that relate the theory in these books to actual experiments...

In order to calculate X and Gamma shielding of I should like use the NIST XCOM online at https://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Xcom/html/xcom1.html In the Xcom tool it is obtained a graph and table of scattering in cm2/g. In order to calculate as example the shielding from 1e19 gamma rays of...

Consider a thin transparent plate surrounded by air. The plate's refractive index is exactly the same as the air's, but it does have a small loss (say of the order of 1%). Let the plate be vertical and normal to our "page" or your computer screen. A laser beam passes through the plate at an...

I've been trying to find a proof or a paper that goes into calculating why the sky is blue as opposed to the "the sky is blue because of scattering" explanation that all over the internet. I (think) understand the concept but I would like to see some numbers. I'm aware of the I = 1/lambda^4...

Homework Statement An electron moving to the left at 0.8c collides with an incoming photon moving to the right. After the collision, the electron is moving to the right at 0.6c and an outgoing photon moves to the left. What was the wavelength of the incoming photon? Homework Equations p=γmv...

When light enters an ocean, the photons scatter elastic with water molecules yet the presence of opaque particles causes the depth to be limited. Is this scattering Rayleigh scattering? (like the scattering in our atmosphere) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering

Homework Statement If the electron and photon were spinless, in the non-relativistic limit we can write the Lagrangian as: $$L=-\frac{1}{2}\phi_e(\Box+m_e^2)\phi_e-\frac{1}{2}A_0\Box A_0+em_eA_0\phi_e\phi_e$$ For Moller scattering $$e^-e^- \to e^-e^- $$ Draw the three tree level diagrams...

Homework Statement A photon of wavelength ##\lambda_i = 200## pm hits an electron at rest, and is scattered exactly backwards. Find the approximate recoil velocity v of the electron using momentum conservation. Homework Equations Comptons Scattering: $$\lambda_f = \lambda_i...

Hello! I found this problem where we are asked what happens to the energy of the outgoing photon in a Compton interaction, if the mass of the electron goes to zero and what is the physical intuition of it. So the formula is this: $$\lambda - \lambda_0 = \frac{h}{m_0 c}(1-cos \theta)$$ So when...

I've been looking at the Kepler's problem, and it looks like your orbit (elliptic, parabolic or hyperbolic) are given in terms of energy and angular momentum. I was wondering: if I have a central attractive potential (such as the Sun) and a projectile starting from an infinite distance at a...

Homework Statement The Hamiltonian is given below: ##H=\frac {\mathbf p^2}{2m} -\frac {\partial^2_z}{2m} +V(z) +\gamma V'(z)(\hat{\mathbf z} \times \mathbf p)\cdot \vec{\sigma}## Where this term ## \gamma V'(z)(\hat{\mathbf z} \times \mathbf p)\cdot \vec{\sigma}## represents the spin orbit...

Is A_pp(s,t)=A_pBARp(t,s) true based on crossing symmetry? Consider pp and pBARp elastic colissions (p + p -> p + p and p + BAR(p) -> p + BAR(p)). The scattering amplitudes are related by crossing in the following way: 1) A_pp(s,t)=A_pBARp(u,t) \simeq A_pBARp(-s-t,t) (energy large compared to...

I'm trying to work out the Feynman diagrams for scalar-scalar scattering using the Yukawa interaction, as given in Chapter 6 of Lahiri & Pal's A First Book of Quantum Field Theory. The interaction hamiltonian is $$\mathscr{H}_{I}=h:\overline{\psi}\psi\phi:$$ where ##\psi## is a fermion field and...

I beg your pardon for not writing out the math explicitly in the following. I started to do so, and realized that it would take me hours to debug my attemps at Latex! And I hope that the my explanation is clear enough that it's not needed. I've been working through R.E. Turner's "Relativity...

Hello, I am reading a section in Jackson discussing classical Rutherford scattering, and he mentions incorporating a cutoff in the Coulomb interaction in order to model electric screening. I am trying to understand how he applies this, as described below. The set up is basically the classic...

Consider the following reaction of strong interaction (in a scattering process) $$n+\pi^+\to \Lambda_0+K^+\tag{1}$$ Then the particle ##\Lambda_0## formed decays with weak interaction $$\Lambda_0\to \pi^+ +p\tag{2}$$ For each decay process I measure the four momenta of ##K^+##, ##\pi^+##...

Homework Statement Consider scattering of a particle of mass ##m## on the potential $$U(r) = \begin{cases} 0, & r \geq b\\ W, & r < b \\ \end{cases}$$ Where ##W## is some arbitrary chosen constant, and the radius ##b## is considered a small parameter. Find the cross section ##\sigma## in the...

I am reading Griffiths' Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, specifically the chapter on scattering. He is discussing the scenario where an incoming beam of particles scatter off an azimuthally symmetric target. At large separation ##r## from the scattering centre, the wavefunction for incoming...

I'm preparing for an exam and I expect this or a similar question to be on it, but I'm running into problems with using the Born approximation and optical theorem for scattering off of a finite well. 1. Homework Statement Calculate the cross sectional area σ for low energy scattering off of a...

I'm already aware that deep inelastic scattering, when an electron of high energy is scattered from a proton, shows us that the proton consists of point-like particles (quarks). However, what does elastic electron proton scattering tell us about the proton? Presumably elastic proton scattering...

Homework Statement Consider interactions of a X-ray beam at a depth, x, within a material. The flux density is: density flux = $$\frac{I}{A}$$ where I is the intensity of the beam that cross a unit area A at right angles to the beam. Let dx be a small slice at the depth x and let dI(x) be the...

I had learned that at the interface between 2 regions such as vacuum and a material, if there's an incident light from a region to another, the boundary conditions on the ##\vec E## and ##\vec B## fields at the interface are such that for them to hold at all times, the frequency of the incident...