1.II.33E
A beam of particles each of mass and energy scatters off an axisymmetric potential . In the first Born approximation the scattering amplitude is
where is the wave vector of the incident particles and is the wave vector of the outgoing particles at scattering angle (and ). Let and . Show that when the scattering potential is spherically symmetric the expression simplifies to
and find the relation between and .
Calculate this scattering amplitude for the potential where is a constant, and show that at high energies the particles emerge predominantly in a narrow cone around the forward beam direction. Estimate the angular width of the cone.
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