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The Scattering Theory
The major source of knowledge about sub-nuclear world is through the scattering experiments. For instance, it is from Rutherford’s scattering experiments we got the planetary model for atoms. Scattering experiments play an important role in the development of elementary particle physics. Of course, they are in relativistic region, and it requires relativistic quantum field theory. In this chapter, we present the scattering theory in non-relativistic quantum mechanics.
Diverse ideas are presented here, and hence, an outline of this chapter is given here. First, the scattering cross section is introduced, the boundary condition for the Schrödinger wave function is discussed and the relation between scattering cross section ...
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