Abstract
What classical and quantum physics have in common is that they deal with material objects, be they elastic bodies imbedded in a medium, atomic nuclei, or even elementary particles. Each of these target objects, when hit by an incident signal (a propagating wave, or a beam of particles), will be excited into eigenvibrations, and in its vibrating state will reemit waves or particles which will carry along with them information about the vibration properties of the target. We shall discuss here the mechanism by which the eigenvibrations are caused, demonstrating that the incident signal produces attenuated surface waves on the object which circumnavigate the latter repeatedly. If their wavelength is such that the surface waves match phases after each circumnavigation, then a standing surface wave is set up which represents the eigenvibration, and which causes peaks of finite width in the scattering amplitude when plotted as a function of frequency or energy, respectively.
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Überall, H. (1980). The role of surface waves in scattering processes of nuclear physics and acoustics. In: DeSanto, J.A., Sáenz, A.W., Zachary, W.W. (eds) Mathematical Methods and Applications of Scattering Theory. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-10023-7_93
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