Principles of Quantum Scattering Theory
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Author(s): D. Belkic
Publisher: Institute of Physics
ISBN: 0750304960
Format: hardback
371pp
Price: £80.00
Review Date: 11 February 2004
Review: Many of the major breakthroughs in physics have been made using scattering to study the structure of matter on many fundamental levels. Atomic, nuclear and molecular particles, as well as their constituents, are quantum systems per se and so quantum scattering is overwhelmingly used in theoretical investigations of particle scattering. These theoretical principles need detailed confirmation by experiment. Here the author presents various principles of quantum scattering theory, along with examples comparing experiment and theory. The book is divided into two sections: (I) the elected main principles and the basic theoretical frameworks for a nonrelativistic quantum-mechanical theory of scattering; (II) selected applications of nonrelativistic scattering theory to energetic inelastic collisions of ions with atoms.