Blue skies and effective interactions
- 1 May 1999
- journal article
- Published by American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in American Journal of Physics
- Vol. 67 (5) , 422-427
- https://doi.org/10.1119/1.19278
Abstract
This paper shows how the basic physics of Rayleigh scattering, responsible for the blueness of the sky, can be extracted using the techniques of effective interactions, which have become widespread in contemporary particle and nuclear physics.Keywords
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