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In this chapter and in the following two chapters we study the non-relativistic scattering of a structureless particle by a potential field V(r). This problem is equivalent to that of an elastic collision between two structureless particles, treated in their center of mass system. It serves as an introduction to many of the basic concepts which will be required when we consider electron scattering by an atom in Parts II and III of this monograph. However, it is also important in its own right as a branch of quantum collision theory (see for example Burke, 1977; Joachain, 1983).
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Burke, P.G., Joachain, C.J. (1995). General Theory. In: Theory of Electron—Atom Collisions. Physics of Atoms and Molecules. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1567-2_1
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