Vol 2 - Landau, Lifshitz - The classical theory of fields (4th, 1994) (1) · Problem 39.2

Constant Electromagnetic Fields

Physics — Landau & Lifshitz · motion-coulomb-field-scattering

Problem

Determine the effective scattering cross section at small angles for the scattering of particles in a Coulomb field. The effective cross section dσd\sigma is the ratio of the number of particles scattered per second into a given element dodo of solid angle to the flux density of impinging particles (i.e., to the number of particles crossing one square centimetre, per second, of a surface perpendicular to the beam of particles).

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