ON COHERENT AND INCOHERENT SCATTERING OF FAST CHARGED PARTICLES IN ULTRATHIN CRYSTALS

Abstract

We consider the fast charged particles scattering in ultrathin crystals on the base of the Born approximation of quantum electrodynamics. The main attention is paid to the question of the scattering cross section splitting into coherent and incoherent components when one of the crystallographic axes and planes is oriented along the direction of particle motion. It is shown that both the coherent and the incoherent components of the scattering cross section considerably depend on the orientation of the crystallographic axes relatively to the incident beam. In particular, it was shown that when particles are scattered by the crystal planes of atoms, the incoherent scattering cross section does not contain the Debye-Waller factor.