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It is obviously quite impossible in 3–4 lectures to cover anything like the full range of processes indicated by the title. I am therefore restricting myself in the first instance to collisions which are not too slow, in other words collisions in which the relative velocity of the colliding systems is equal to or greater than that of the internal motion within them. There are two approaches to the exposition of basic theory. In one the emphasis is on obtaining very general expressions from which special cases are derived as required. The other adopts an inductive method in which simple cases are first discussed and then gradually generalized to arrive at a general formulation. It is this latter approach which I am adopting, starting from the simplest type of collision problem, the scattering of particles by a centre of force, and then proceeding onwards first to direct collisions between atomic systems and then to rearrangement collisions.
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Massey, H.S.W. (1983). Fundamental Processes in Atomic Collision Physics. In: Lutz, H.O., Briggs, J.S., Kleinpoppen, H. (eds) Fundamental Processes in Energetic Atomic Collisions. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3781-2_1
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