Semiclassical theory of diffraction in elastic scattering
- 1 September 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular Physics
- Vol. 30 (3) , 951-958
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00268977500102471
Abstract
It is shown that diffraction from a purely repulsive potential can be described by a simple extension of the Ford and Wheeler semiclassical analysis. The diffraction arises from interference between a ‘classically allowed’ and a ‘classically forbidden’ contribution to the scattering amplitude. A numerical example is presented to show that the semiclassical description is quite quantitative.Keywords
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