Scattering in an environment
Abstract
The cross section of elastic electron-proton scattering taking place in an electron gas is calculated within the closed time path method by means of the resummation of the one-loop self-energy in the photon propagator. Backreaction of the colliding particles on the gas has been taken into account and is found to be dominating the cross section when the energy exchange falls in the vicinity of the Fermi energy. Backreaction reflects the colliding particles-gas entanglement and makes the colliding particle state mixed. The softness of the asymptotic particle-hole states of the gas makes the colliding particle trajectories more consistent and the collision irreversible, rendering in this manner the scattering more classical in this regime.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- March 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.065013
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1110.2128
- Bibcode:
- 2012PhRvD..85f5013P
- Keywords:
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- 12.20.Ds;
- Specific calculations;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D