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Since the 50’ s, the optical analogy has played an important rôle in shaping the research program of high-energy particle diffraction. Kirchhoff’s diffraction theory is indeed formally similar to the quantum theory of potential scattering at high energies, the so-called “eikonall approximation”, and the latter is the basis of the geometrical and s-channel approaches to hadronic diffraction.
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- Total Cross Section
- Differential Cross Section
- Profile Function
- Inelastic Cross Section
- Eikonal Approximation
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Barone, V., Predazzi, E. (2002). Preliminaries. In: High-Energy Particle Diffraction. Text and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04724-8_2
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