We can't have elastic scattering even theoretically!

jeudi 28 novembre 2013

Consider a photon which is scattered by a matter elastically. In an elastic scattering we have [itex]

|k_i|=|k_f| and k_f - k_i = G

[/itex] where [itex]

G

[/itex] is a reciprocal vector. But according to momentum conservation, the matter must obtain a momentum [itex]

\hbar G

[/itex] and hence the kinetic energy, so according to energy conservation we no longer have [itex]

|k_i|=|k_f|

[/itex] because some of the energy of incident photon is transferred to the matter and this is a contradiction!






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