Coulomb scattering is the elastic scattering of charged particles by the Coulomb interaction. The physical phenomenon was used by Ernest Rutherford in a classic 1911 paper that eventually led to the widespread use of scattering in particle physics to study subatomic matter.
Coulomb scattering is the elastic scattering of charged particles by the Coulomb interaction. The physical phenomenon was used by Ernest Rutherford in a classic 1911 paper that eventually led to the widespread use of scattering in particle physics to study subatomic matter.
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