Scattering and inverse scattering in Pure and Applied Science To order this title, and for more information, click here
Edited By E. Pike, King's College, London, U.K. Pierre Sabatier, Universite montpellier II, France
Description Scattering is the collision of two objects that results in a change of trajectory and energy. For example, in particle physics, such
as electrons, photons, or neutrons are "scattered off" of a target specimen, resulting in a different energy and direction. In the field
of electromagnetism, scattering is the random diffusion of electromagnetic radiation from air masses is an aid in the long-range sending
of radio signals over geographic obstacles such as mountains. This type of scattering, applied to the field of acoustics, is the spreading
of sound in many directions due to irregularities in the transmission medium.
Volume I of Scattering will be devoted
to basic theoretical ideas, approximation methods, numerical techniques and mathematical modeling. Volume II will be concerned with basic
experimental techniques, technological practices, and comparisons with relevant theoretical work including seismology, medical applications,
meteorological phenomena and astronomy. This reference will be used by researchers and graduate students in physics, applied physics,
biophysics, chemical physics, medical physics, acoustics, geosciences, optics, mathematics, and engineering.
This is the first encyclopedic-range
work on the topic of scattering theory in quantum mechanics, elastodynamics, acoustics, and electromagnetics. It serves as a comprehensive
interdisciplinary presentation of scattering and inverse scattering theory and applications in a wide range of scientific fields, with
an emphasis, and details, up-to-date developments. Scattering also places an emphasis on the problems that are still
in active current research.
Audience
Research workers; practitioners in academic, government, and industrial institutions; graduate studens in physics, chemistry, and engineering.
Contents Part 1: SCATTERING OF WAVES BY MACROSCOPIC TARGET
Interdisciplinary aspects of wave scattering
Acoustic scattering
Acoustic scattering:
approximate methods
Electromagnetic wave scattering: theory
Electromagnetic wave scattering: approximate and numerical methods
Electromagnetic
wave scattering: applications
Elastodynamic wave scattering: theory
Elastodynamic wave scattering: Applications
Scattering in Oceans
Part 2: SCATTERING IN MICROSCOPIC PHYSICS AND CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Introduction to direct potential scattering
Introduction to Inverse
Potential Scattering
Visible and Near-visible Light Scattering
Practical Aspects of Visible and Near-visible Light Scattering
Nonlinear
Light Scattering
Atomic and Molecular Scattering: Introduction to Scattering in Chemical
X-ray Scattering
Neutron Scattering
Electron
Diffraction and Scattering
Part 3: SCATTERING IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS
Nuclear Physics
Part 4: PARTICLE SCATTERING
State of the Art of
Peturbative Methods
Scattering Through Electro-weak Interactions (the Fermi Scale)
Scattering Through Strong Interactions (the Hadronic
or QCD Scale)
Part 5: SCATTERING AT EXTREME PHYSICAL SCALES
Scattering at Extreme Physical Scales
Part 6: SCATTERING IN MATHEMATICS
AND NON-PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Relations with Other Mathematical Theories
Inverse Scattering Transform and Non-linear Partial Differenttial
Equations
Scattering of Mathematical Objects
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