Asymptotic Diffraction Theory and Nuclear Scattering

Roy J. Glauber was Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics (Emeritus) at Harvard University, Massachusetts, and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. In 2005, he received half the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to 'the quantum theory of optical coherence'. He received many awards, including the 1985 Albert A. Michelson Medal from the Franklin Institute, the 1985 Max Born Award from the Optical Society of America, and the 1966 Dannie Heinemann Prize for Mathematical Physics from the American Physical Society. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1997), an Honorary Member of the Optical Society of America (2008) and served on the Advisory Board of the Max Plank Institute of Light. Per Osland is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Physics and Technology, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway. He is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and a Fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced study. He has held research positions at CERN, Harvard, NORDITA and DESY, and served as chair of the High Energy and Particle Physics Division Board of the European Physical Society.

Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I. Introduction: 1. Overview and preview; 2. Diffraction theory; 3. Asymptotic diffraction theory; 4. Two simple examples; 5. Complex trajectories; 6. Scattering from linear structures; Part II. Various Radial Fall-Offs: 7. Gaussian edge; 8. Exponential edge; 9. Sharper edges; 10. Analytic variations; Part III. Composite Phase Functions: 11. Extended charges; 12. Coulomb plus nuclear interactions; 13. Smooth two-scale functions; 14. Two Fermi functions; 15. Different singularities; 16. Summary; Appendix A. Partial waves and phase shift function; Appendix B. Iteration for stationary points; References; Index.