Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
It has been shown by Mott that it is legitimate in calculating the probability of excitation of an atom by close collision with a slow α-particle to treat the α-particle as a moving centre of force. This method gives for the probability P of excitation
where
and
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‡ Loc. cit. equations (16) and (20).
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