Scattering of particles by long range potentials

Abstract

The scattering of particles by long-range potentials is investigated. It is shown that a consistent analysis of the development in time of the collision process leads to results which differ signific~tly from the results of the stationary scattering theory. It turns out that for long-range potentials the quantity which plays the role of the scattering cross-section depends on the coordinates of the source and the detector. These anomalies are manifested in processes of depolarization of colliding particle beams, as well as in inelastic scattering processes.