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celeritas::MottRatioCalculator Class Reference

Calculates the ratio of Mott cross section to the Rutherford cross section. More...

#include <MottRatioCalculator.hh>

Public Types

Type aliases
using MottCoeffMatrix = MottElementData::MottCoeffMatrix
 

Public Member Functions

CELER_FUNCTION MottRatioCalculator (MottCoeffMatrix const &coeffs, real_type beta)
 Construct with state data.
 
CELER_FUNCTION real_type operator() (real_type cos_t) const
 Compute the ratio of Mott to Rutherford cross sections.
 

Detailed Description

Calculates the ratio of Mott cross section to the Rutherford cross section.

This ratio is an adjustment of the cross section from a purely classical treatment of a point nucleus in an electronic cloud (Rutherford scattering) to a quantum mechanical treatment. The implementation is an interpolated approximation developed in [LQZ95] and described in the Geant Physics Reference Manual PRM section 8.4

[LQZ95] T. Lijian, H. Quing and L. Zhengming, Radiat. Phys. Chem. 45 (1995), 235-245

The parameter cos_theta is the cosine of the scattered angle in the z-aligned momentum frame.


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