THEORETICAL FORMULA OF CLASSICAL SCATTERING
Starting with the Liouville equation, an integral formalism is developed to study the two-body problem. It is shown that the "scattering equations" take an intuitive form when expressed in the coordinate space and that the evolution of the velocity distribution function is closely related to the stationary solution of the Liouville equation with appropriate boundary conditions. The formal analogy is stressed with the S matrix point of view in quantum mechanics. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Universite Libre, Brussels
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- NSA Number:
- NSA-14-001091
- OSTI ID:
- 4240814
- Journal Information:
- Physica, Journal Name: Physica Vol. Vol: 25
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
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