THE EFFECTS OF MULTIPLE SCATTERING IN SMALL-ANGLE NUCLEAR SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS
Journal Article
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· Nuclear Physics (Netherlands) Divided into Nucl. Phys. A and Nucl. Phys. B
The Moliere theory of multiple scattering by a screened coulomb field is applied to typical data from various laboratories on p-nucleus scattering at small angles, and it is shown that in many cases the systematic errors due to multiple scattering are much larger than the published errors at the smallest scattering angles. A brief account of the Moliere theory is given, with an extension to take into account the effects of beam size, beam divergence, and counter size, provided that, together, these can be represented by a Gaussian. The Moliere theory is extended to take into account deviations from the screened coulomb fleld cross section caused by nuclear effects, provided that these deviations can be expressed as an additive correction to the screened coulomb field cross section. A method is outlined for extracting sirgle scattering cross sections from data containing contributions from multiple scattering, the method being based on the validity of the Moliere theory as a first approximation. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Tufts Univ., Medford, Mass.
- NSA Number:
- NSA-18-021242
- OSTI ID:
- 4008679
- Journal Information:
- Nuclear Physics (Netherlands) Divided into Nucl. Phys. A and Nucl. Phys. B, Journal Name: Nuclear Physics (Netherlands) Divided into Nucl. Phys. A and Nucl. Phys. B Vol. Vol: 52; ISSN NUPHA
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
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