MULTIPLE-SCATTERING AND CHARGED-PARTICLE HYDROGEN-ATOM COLLISIONS

Glauber-approximation scattering amplitudes for charged-particle-hydrogen- atom elastic and inelastic collisions are derived directly in terms of the known particle-electron and particle-proton Coulomb scattering amplitudes and the known hydrogen-atom form factors. The authors show that the particle-hydrogen amplitude contains no single-scattering term. The double-scattering term is obtained as a two-dimensional integral in momentum space. The authors show how the result can be used as the starting point for an alternative and relatively simple derivation, in closed form, of the Glauber particle-hydrogen scattering amplitude for transitions from the ground state to an arbitrary (nlm) state. © 1979 The American Physical Society.