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Y Chargui1,2, A Dhahbi1,2,3, A R Karam3
1Department of Physics, College of Science and Arts at ArRass, Qassim University, Buraydah 52571, Saudi Arabia.
Abstract:
We consider the relativistic quantum scattering of spinless particles in one-spatial dimension using the Feshbach-Villars formalism. We construct the general form of the scattering matrix, for symmetric and non-symmetric potentials, based on the symmetry properties of the Feshbach-Villars equation. Then, since in one dimension there are only two partial waves associated with even and odd parities, we show, in a simple and comprehensive way, how to describe this transmission-reflection problem using partial-wave decomposition. As an illustration, we also discuss the special case of scattering by a symmetric square-well potential.
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