Chapter 11: Q19P (page 419)

Prove the optical theorem, which relates the total cross-section to the imaginary part of the forward scattering amplitude:
$σ = \frac{4 π}{k} Im (f (0))$

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$σ = \frac{4 π}{k} J [f (0)]$

Hence, it’s proved.

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To prove the optical theorem.

The relationship between the total cross section and the scattering amplitude in three dimensional scattering is the optical theorem. Equations 11.47 and 11.48 are given by:

$f (θ) = \frac{1}{k} \sum_{l = 0}^{\infty} (2 l + 1) e^{i δ} \sin (δ_{l}) P_{l} (\cos θ)$ ……………….(1)

$σ = \frac{4 π}{k^{2}} \sum_{l = 0}^{\infty} (2 l + 1) \sin^{2} (δ_{l})$ ……………………..(2)

If $θ = 0$ , we can use the fact that $P_{l} (1) = 1$ for all $l$ , so we get:

$f (θ) = \frac{1}{k} \sum_{l = 0}^{\infty} (2 l + 1) e^{i δ} \sin (δ_{l})$

But,

$e^{i δ_{l}} = \cos (δ_{l}) + i \sin (δ_{l})$

So,

$f (0) = \frac{1}{k} {\sum (2 l + 1) [\sin (δ_{l}) \cos (δ_{l}) + i \sin^{2} (δ_{l})]}_{l - 0}^{\infty}$

Taking the imaginary part of $f (0)$ we get:

$J [f (0)] = \frac{1}{k} \sum_{l - 0}^{\infty} (2 l + 1) \sin^{2} (δ_{l})$

So equation (2) can be written as:

$σ = \frac{4 π}{k} J [f (0)]$

Hence, it’s proved.

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$σ = \frac{4 π}{k} Im (f (0))$