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

Name: [NT / RIKEN seminar] Diffractive Electron-Nucleus Scattering and Ancestry in Branching Random Walks
Start: 2018-11-02T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2018-11-02T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Bldg. 510

by Alfred Mueller (Columbia)

Friday 2 Nov 2018, 14:00 → 15:00 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.