Theoretical description of elastic atom—atom scatteringd

Abstract

Abstract Recent measurements of Lindhar's scattering function are used as starting point for some theoretical investigations of the elastic atom‐atom scattering within the quasistatic model. Good agreement is found for scattering of light ions on heavy atoms. For heavy collision partners the theoretical results agree in average with the experiments but don't provide the oscillations in full magnitude. This deviation is caused by neglecting the deformation of electron distributions.