High Energy / Nuclear Theory / RIKEN Seminars

[NT / RIKEN seminar] Diffractive Electron-Nucleus Scattering and Ancestry in Branching Random Walks

by Alfred Mueller (Columbia)

US/Eastern
2-38 (Bldg. 510)

2-38

Bldg. 510

Description

We note an analogy between electron-nucleus scattering events and realizations of one-dimensional branching random walks. This allows an analytic calculation of the relative probability of different gap sizes in diffractive events.