Rutherford Scattering - Extension To Situations With Relativistic Particles and Target Recoil

Extension To Situations With Relativistic Particles and Target Recoil

The extension of Rutherford-type scattering to energy regions in which the incoming particle has spin and magnetic moment, and is traveling at relativistic energies, and there is enough momentum-transfer that the struck particle recoils with some of the incoming particle's energy (so the process is inelastic rather than elastic), is called Mott scattering.

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