Cross Section -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Cross Section

The cross section to collision is defined as


Particles incident on a medium with cross section and number density N obey the exponential decay law


where is the initial flux at height z = 0, and is the flux at height z.

Barn, Scattering


© 1996-2007 Eric W. Weisstein

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