Diffraction Effects in Semiclassical Scattering

Abstract

1. Critical effects in semiclassical scattering 2. Diffraction and coronae 3. The rainbow 4. The glory 5. Mie solution and resonances 6. Complex angular momentum 7. Scattering by an impenetrable sphere 8. Diffraction as tunnelling 9. The Debye expansion 10. Theory of the rainbow 11. Theory of the glory 12. Near-critical scattering 13. Average cross sections 14. Orbiting and resonances 15. Macroscopic applications 16. Applications to atomic, nuclear and particle physics References Index.