Remarks on Charged-Particle Scattering

Abstract

The scattering of charged particles from a shielded Coulomb potential is reviewed. The limit as the shielding radius becomes infinite is discussed. A method of determining reaction cross sections, recently introduced by the authors is treated in detail and applied to the scattering of protons from ${\mathrm{He}}^{4}$ and ${\mathrm{H}}^{2}$ at 40 MeV.