Abstract
The problem of the collision between an electron and an atom was first considered on the Quantum theory by Born, who has worked out in detail the case of atomic hydrogen, and has obtained formulae giving the variation of scattering with angle both for elastic and inelastic collisions. Born's solution is only approximate. The purpose of this note is to discuss the physical nature of the approximations used by him, and also to extend his results to Helium, for which experimental evidence is now available. It is found that the theoretical curve agrees with the experimental as well as the approximations used would lead one to expect. We shall confine ourselves to elastic collisions.
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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2. Göttinger Nachrichten. p. 146 (1926), referred to as loc. cit.
3. Born, loc. cit. Equation (23).
4. In these units, the unit of length, which is all that concerns us, is h2/4π2mε2.
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