
4. Efficient sections
4.1 Notion of microscopic effective scattering cross-section
To introduce the notion of effective cross-section, consider the following experiment in which a uniform beam of particles (of a given energy E) is directed onto a thin target of thickness dx and area S and as illustrated in figure 5 .
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