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  2. Rutherford scattering experiments - Wikipedia

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    Rutherford scattering cross-section is strongly peaked around zero degrees, and yet has nonzero values out to 180 degrees. This formula predicted the results that Geiger measured in the coming year. The scattering probability into small angles greatly exceeds the probability in to larger angles, reflecting the tiny nucleus surrounded by empty ...

  3. Scattering - Wikipedia

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    Scattering also includes the interaction of billiard balls on a table, the Rutherford scattering (or angle change) of alpha particles by gold nuclei, the Bragg scattering (or diffraction) of electrons and X-rays by a cluster of atoms, and the inelastic scattering of a fission fragment as it traverses a thin foil.

  4. Elastic recoil detection - Wikipedia

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    Elastic recoil detection analysis (ERDA), also referred to as forward recoil scattering or spectrometry, is an ion beam analysis technique, in materials science, to obtain elemental concentration depth profiles in thin films. [1]

  5. Rutherford model - Wikipedia

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    The Rutherford model was devised by Ernest Rutherford to describe an atom. ... The atom's electron cloud does not (substantially) influence alpha particle scattering.

  6. Cross section (physics) - Wikipedia

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    The scattering of X-rays can also be described in terms of scattering cross sections, in which case the square ångström is a convenient unit: 1 Å 2 = 10 −20 m 2 = 10 000 pm 2 = 10 8 b. The sum of the scattering, photoelectric, and pair-production cross-sections (in barns) is charted as the "atomic attenuation coefficient" (narrow-beam), in ...

  7. Elastic scattering - Wikipedia

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    Elastic scattering is a form of particle scattering in scattering theory, nuclear physics and particle physics. In this process, the internal states of the particles involved stay the same. In the non-relativistic case, where the relative velocities of the particles are much less than the speed of light , elastic scattering simply means that ...

  8. Impact parameter - Wikipedia

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    Impact parameter b and scattering angle θ In physics, the impact parameter b is defined as the perpendicular distance between the path of a projectile and the center of a potential field U(r) created by an object that the projectile is approaching (see diagram).

  9. Coulomb collision - Wikipedia

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    An N-body treatment accounting for all impact parameters can be performed by taking into account a few simple facts. The main two ones are: (i) The above change in perpendicular velocity is the lowest order approximation in 1/b of a full Rutherford deflection. Therefore, the above perturbative theory can also be done by using this full deflection.