1. Diffraction and rainbow in atom-surface scattering
- Author
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P. Cantini, R. Spadacini, Lorenzo Mattera, G. Boato, G.E. Tommei, A.C. Levi, and Ubaldo Garibaldi
- Subjects
Diffraction ,Materials science ,Scattering ,General Engineering ,Physics::Optics ,General Physics and Astronomy ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Rainbow ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Spectral line ,Neon ,chemistry ,Atom ,Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters ,Physics::Atomic Physics ,Monochromatic color ,Atomic physics ,Helium - Abstract
The diffractive scattering of nearly monochromatic helium and neon beams from a (001) cleaved LiF surface at low temperatures was experimentally studied. A quantum theory of surface rainbow based on a corrugated hard surface model was developed. The calculated relative intensities of diffraction peaks agree with the measured values.
- Published
- 1973