SCATTERING THEORY
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2018/2019
- Teacher
- GIUSEPPE PAGLIARA
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- FIS/02
Training objectives
- Knowledge: to provide the basic elements of scattering theory within non-relativistic quantum mechanics. Abilities: to be able to solve simple problems associated with scattering of particles.
Prerequisites
- Very good knowledge of non-relativistic quantum mechanics.
Course programme
- The course touches a large number of topics, each of them illustrated in 2-4 hours of lesson.
- Moeller operator
- Lippmann-Schwinger equation
- Born approximation
- Eikonal approximation
- optical theorem
- partial waves expansion
- low energy scattering, scattering lenght, effective range
- quasi bound states, resonances
- analytic properties of scattering amplitude, Regge theory
- anelastic scattering
- Bethe-Block formula
- scattering with a coulomb potential. Didactic methods
- It is a theoretical course.
Learning assessment procedures
- The student has to be able to describe and to use the main theoretical tecniques studied during the course. The preparation of the student will be tested from his/her ability to discuss the problems of scattering theory introduced in the course.
Reference texts
- Sakurai: modern quantum mechanics
Landau: quantum mechanics
On a few specific topics notes will be provided by the teacher.
