Unexplained phase shifts seen during atomic scattering
By firing a proton beam at atoms, investigators can observe the dynamics resulting from the interactions between the various particles in the system. Researchers have now described how when a hydrogen molecule and a proton collided, they observed unexpected features related to the wave nature of the particles. The work builds on the ongoing exploration into the “few-body problem” in physics, which emerges with three or more interacting particles. …read more
