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Scattering Theorytheory LectureLecture 44 ScatteringScattering theorytheory SS2011: ‚Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Part 2‘ SS2011: ‚Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Part 2‘ 1 I.I. ScatteringScattering experimentsexperiments Scattering experiment: A beam of incident scatterers with a given flux or intensity (number of particles per unit area dA per unit time dt ) impinges on the target (described by a scattering potential); the flux can be written as The number of particles per unit time which are detected in a small region of the solid angle, dΩ, located at a given angular deflection specified by (θ, φ), can be counted as 2 ScatteringScattering crosscross sectionsection The differential cross-section for scattering is defined as the number of particles scattered into an element of solid angle dΩ in the direction (θ,φ) per unit time : dσ ( ϑ ,φ ) 1 dN (1.1) = sc dΩ J inc dΩ [dimensions of an area] Jinc - incident flux The total cross-section corresponds to scatterings through any scattering angle: (1.2) Most scattering experiments are carried out in the laboratory (Lab) frame in which the target is initially at rest while the projectiles are moving. Calculations of the cross sections are generally easier to perform within the center-of-mass (CM) frame in which the center of mass of the projectiles–target system is at rest (before and after collision) Î one has to know how to transform the cross sections from one frame into the other. Note: the total cross section σ is the same in both frames, since the total number of collisions that take place does not depend on the frame in which the observation is carried out. However, the differential cross sections dσ/dΩ are not the same in both frames, since the scattering angles (θ,φ) are frame dependent. 3 ConnectingConnecting thethe aanglesngles inin thethe LabLab andand CMCM framesframes Elastic scattering of two structureless particles in the Lab and CM frames: Note: consider for simplicity NON-relativistic kinematics! r r V CM || V 1 L To find the connection between the Lab and CM cross sections, we need first to find how the scattering angles in one frame are related to their counterparts in the other. If denote the position of m1 in the Lab and CM frames, respectively, and if denotes the position of the center of mass with respect to the Lab frame, we have A time derivative of this relation leads to (1.3) where are the velocities of m1 in the Lab and CM frames before collision and is the velocity of the CM with respect to the Lab frame. Similarly, the velocity of m after collision is 1 (1.4) 4 ConnectingConnecting thethe aanglesngles inin thethe LabLab andand CMCM framesframes Since r r (1.5) V CM || V 1 L (1.6) Dividing (1.6) by (1.5), we end up with (1.7) Use that CM momenta r r r (1.8) pCM = p1 L + p 2 L r r r ( m 1 + m 2 )V CM = m 1V 1 L + m 2V 2 L Since from (1.8) Î (1.9) or from (1.9) Î (1.10) (1.11) 5 ConnectingConnecting thethe aanglesngles inin thethe LabLab andand CMCM framesframes Since the center of mass is at rest in the CM frame, the total momenta before and after collisions are separately zero: r r v r r r pC = p1C + p 2 C = pC′ = p1′ C + p′2 C = 0 (1.12) (1.13) Since the kinetic energy is conserved: (1.14) (1.15) In the case of elastic collisions, the speeds of the particles in the CM frame are the same before and after the collision; From (1.11) Î (1.16) Dividing (1.9) by (1.16) Î (1.17) 6 ConnectingConnecting thethe aanglesngles inin thethe LabLab andand CMCM framesframes Finally, a substitution of (1.17) into (1.7) yields (1.17) and using we obtain (1.18) Note: In a similar way we can establish a connection between θ2 and θ. From (1.4) we have + using Î the x and y components of this relation are (1.19) (1.20) 7 ConnectingConnecting thethe LabLab andand CMCM CrossCross SectionsSections The connection between the differential cross sections in the Lab and CM frames can be obtained from the fact that the number of scattered particles passing through an infinitesimal cross section is the same in both frames: (1.21) What differs is the solid angle dΩ : in the Lab frame: in the CM frame: (1.22) Since there is a cylindrical symmetry around the direction of the incident beam (1.23) From (1.18) Î (1.24) 8 ConnectingConnecting thethe LabLab andand CMCM CrossCross SectionsSections Thus : (1.25) From (1.23) and (1.20) Î (1.26) Limiting cases: 1) the Lab and CM results are the same, since (1.17) leads to θ1=θ Î (1.27) 2) then from (1.20) Î from (1.25) Æ (1.28) 9 FromFrom classicalclassical toto quantumquantum scatteringscattering theorytheory 1. Classical theory: - scattering of hard ‚spheres‘ - individual well-defined trajectories 2. Quantum theory: - scattering of wave pakeges Å wave–particle duality - probabilistic origin of scattering process 10 II.II. ClassicalClassical ttrajectoriesrajectories andand ccrossross--ssectionsections Scattering trajectories, corresponding to different impact parameters, b give different scattering angles θ. All of the particles in the beam in the hatched region of area dσ = 2π bdb are scattered into the angular region (θ, θ + dθ) The equations of motion for incident particle: (2.1) + initial conditions: Î defines the trajectory (2.2) (2.3) since initial kinetic energy For a particle obeying classical mechanics: the trajectory for the unbound motion, corresponding to a scattering event, is deterministically predictable, given by the interaction potential and the initial conditions; the path of any scatterer in the incident beam can be followed, and its angular deflection is determined as precisely as required 11 ClassicalClassical ttrajectoriesrajectories andand ccrossross--ssectionsections The number of particles scattered per unit time into the angular region (θ, θ+dθ) with any value of φ can be written as (2.4) (2.5) The knowledge of b(θ), obtained directly from Newton’s laws or other methods, is then sufficient to calculate the scattering cross-section. For the scattering from nontrivial central forces, the trajectory can be obtained from the equations of motion by using energy- and angular momentum- conservation methods E.g., one can rewrite L - angular momentum in the form (2.6) 12 ClassicalClassical ttrajectoriesrajectories andand ccrossross--ssectionsections The angular momentum can be written via the angular velocity Îfrom (2.6) (2.7) Î the angle through which the particle moves between two radial distances r1 and r2 : (2.8) Scattering trajectories in a central potential : rmin - the distance of closest approach, Θ – deflection angle (2.9) Use that the initial angular momentum and (2.10) Î from (2.8), (2.9) 13 ClassicalClassical CoulombCoulomb scatteringscattering The potential corresponding to the scattering of charged particles via Coulomb’s law can be written in the general form (2.11) where the constant corresponds to the electrostatic interaction of point-like charges Z1e and Z2e Î from (2.10) (2.12) Note that for large energies (E→∞) or vanishing charges (A → 0), one has rmin → b Use that (2.13) Î from (2.12) (2.14) 14 Classical Coulomb scattering Use that (2.15) Î Rutherford formula - characteristic for Coulomb scattering from a point-like charge: (2.16) Note: If one attempts to evaluate the total cross-section using Eq. (2.16), one obtains an infinite result. This divergence is due to the infinite range of the 1/r potential, and the “infinity” in the integral comes from scatterings as θ → 0 which corresponds to arbitrarily large impact parameters where the Coulomb potential causes a scatter through an arbitrarily small angle, which still contributes to the total cross-section. 15 III.III. QuantumQuantum ScatteringScattering The scattering amplitude of spinless, nonrelativistic particles: Consider the elastic scattering between two spinless, nonrelativistic particles of masses m1 and m2. During the scattering process, the particles interact with each other. If the interaction is time independent, we can describe the two-particle system with stationary states (3.1) where ET is the total energy and is a solution of the time-independent Schrödinger equation: (3.2) is the potential representing the interaction between the two particles. In the case where the interaction between m1 and m2 depends only on their relative distance one can reduce the eigenvalue problem (3.2) to two decoupled eigenvalue problems: one for the center of mass (CM), which moves like a free particle of mass M= m1+m2 (which is of no concern to us here) and another for a fictitious particle with a reduced mass which moves in the potential (3.3) 16 ScatteringScattering ofof spinlessspinless particlesparticles In quantum mechanics the incident particle is described by means of a wave packet that interacts with the target. After scattering, the wave function consists of an unscattered part propagating in the forward direction and a scattered part that propagates along some direction (θ,ϕ) 17 ScatteringScattering ofof spinlessspinless particlesparticles One can consider (3.3) as representing the scattering of a particle of mass μ from a fixed scattering center described by V(r), where r is the distance from the particle μ to the center of V(r): (3.3) ⎧ ≠ 0 ,if r ≤ a assume that V(r) has a finite range a: Vˆ ( r ) = ⎨ ⎩ = 0 ,if r > a Outside the range, r > a, the potential vanishes, V(r)= 0; the eigenvalue problem (3.3) then becomes (3.4) In this case μ behaves as a free particle before the collision and can be described by a plane wave (3.5) where is the wave vector associated with the incident particle;A is a normalization factor.
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