Small-angle scattering and quasiclassical approximation beyond leading order

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.10.049zbMATH Open1360.81285OpenAlexW2163069421MaRDI QIDQ526327FDOQ526327

Authors Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date 10 May 2017

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.04111

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

Abstract: In the present paper we examine the accuracy of the quasiclassical approach on the example of small-angle electron elastic scattering. Using the quasiclassical approach, we derive the differential cross section and the Sherman function for arbitrary localized potential at high energy. These results are exact in the atomic charge number and correspond to the leading and the next-to-leading high-energy small-angle asymptotics for the scattering amplitude. Using the small-angle expansion of the exact amplitude of electron elastic scattering in the Coulomb field, we derive the cross section and the Sherman function with a relative accuracy $het{a}^2$ and $het{a}^1$, respectively ($heta$ is the scattering angle). We show that the correction of relative order $het{a}^2$ to the cross section, as well as that of relative order $het{a}^1$ to the Sherman function, originates not only from the contribution of large angular momenta $lgg1$, but also from that of $lsim1$. This means that, in general, it is not possible to go beyond the accuracy of the next-to-leading quasiclassical approximation without taking into account the non-quasiclassical terms.

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