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Slow relativistic electrons

MAY 01, 1966

DOI: 10.1063/1.3048269

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The scattering of slow electrons by atoms is generally calculated by neglecting relativistic effects. However for heavy atoms, very slow electrons and certain simplifying assumptions, H. N. Browne and Ernst Bauer have recently shown that relativistic and nonrelativistic cross sections are quite different.

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Volume 19, Number 5

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