Difference between inelastic and nonelastic

[flied]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inelastic_collision
An inelastic collision, in contrast to an elastic collision, is a collision in which kinetic energy is not conserved.

http://journals.aps.org/archive/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.114.1584
nonelastic (total minus elastic).

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/nuclear-...ear-physics-fall-2006/lecture-notes/lec16.pdf
Is inelastic just part of nonelastic ?
nonelastic = inelastic + nuclear reaction [ (n,α),(n,γ), (n,p), (n,n'),fission ...]

Is definition the same for charged and uncharged particles ?

 

[mfb]

In high-energy physics, all those processes (apart from elastic scattering of course) would be called inelastic. I don't know about nuclear physics. In general, the same words can be defined slightly different between different authors.

 

[Vanadium 50]

The difference may be in quasi-elastic and diffractive collisions: these are ones where the incoming particles emerge intact, but the collision was not elastic.