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On the excitation of a lithium atom by collision with a slow α-particle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. W. Frame
J. W. Frame
Affiliation:
Pembroke College
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It has been shown by Mott that it is legitimate in calculating the probability of excitation of an atom by close collision with a slow α-particle to treat the α-particle as a moving centre of force. This method gives for the probability P of excitation

where

and

Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 1937 , pp. 115 - 121
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1937

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