Momentum-transfer cross section, the Glossary
In physics, and especially scattering theory, the momentum-transfer cross section (sometimes known as the momentum-transport cross section) is an effective scattering cross section useful for describing the average momentum transferred from a particle when it collides with a target.[1]
Table of Contents
9 relations: Charge radius, Cross section (physics), Electron scattering, Expected value, Momentum transfer, Partial-wave analysis, Physics, Proton, Scattering.
- Momentum
- Scattering theory
Charge radius
The rms charge radius is a measure of the size of an atomic nucleus, particularly the proton distribution.
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Cross section (physics)
In physics, the cross section is a measure of the probability that a specific process will take place in a collision of two particles. Momentum-transfer cross section and cross section (physics) are scattering theory.
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Electron scattering
Electron scattering occurs when electrons are displaced from their original trajectory.
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Expected value
In probability theory, the expected value (also called expectation, expectancy, expectation operator, mathematical expectation, mean, expectation value, or first moment) is a generalization of the weighted average.
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Momentum transfer
In particle physics, wave mechanics, and optics, momentum transfer is the amount of momentum that one particle gives to another particle. Momentum-transfer cross section and momentum transfer are momentum.
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Partial-wave analysis
Partial-wave analysis, in the context of quantum mechanics, refers to a technique for solving scattering problems by decomposing each wave into its constituent angular-momentum components and solving using boundary conditions. Momentum-transfer cross section and Partial-wave analysis are scattering theory.
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Physics
Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.
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Proton
A proton is a stable subatomic particle, symbol, H+, or 1H+ with a positive electric charge of +1 e (elementary charge).
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Scattering
In physics, scattering is a wide range of physical processes where moving particles or radiation of some form, such as light or sound, are forced to deviate from a straight trajectory by localized non-uniformities (including particles and radiation) in the medium through which they pass.
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See also
Momentum
- Angular momentum
- Cauchy momentum equation
- Center-of-momentum frame
- Crystal momentum
- Energy–momentum relation
- Four-momentum
- Momentum
- Momentum compaction
- Momentum theory
- Momentum transfer
- Momentum-transfer cross section
- Position and momentum spaces
- Tests of relativistic energy and momentum
Scattering theory
- Amplituhedron
- BCFW recursion
- Born approximation
- Carrier scattering
- Convolution for optical broad-beam responses in scattering media
- Cross section (physics)
- Crossing (physics)
- Delta potential
- Diffraction tomography
- Dyson series
- Ericson fluctuations
- Ericson-Ericson Lorentz-Lorenz correction
- Feshbach–Fano partitioning
- Feynman diagram
- Froissart bound
- Furry's theorem
- Inverse scattering problem
- Inverse scattering transform
- Jost function
- Limiting absorption principle
- Limiting amplitude principle
- Luminosity (scattering theory)
- Møller scattering
- MHV amplitudes
- Marchenko equation
- Momentum-transfer cross section
- Mott–Bethe formula
- Multiple scattering theory
- Optical theorem
- Partial-wave analysis
- Pomeranchuk's theorem
- Rectangular potential barrier
- Redheffer star product
- Resonance (particle physics)
- Riemann–Hilbert problem
- S-matrix
- Scattering length
- Soft photon
- Step potential
- Total active reflection coefficient
- Transfer-matrix method (optics)
- Unified scattering function
- Wick's theorem
- Yukawa potential
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum-transfer_cross_section
Also known as Momentum transfer cross section.