Re: cross sections of high-energy proton

[avest@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Albert Lee Vest)]

>
>About the Tony Hillerman reference:
>
>  Tony Hillerman is an author who writes mystery novels situated 
>in & around the ... cross sections of high-energy proton reactions?
...
>  ( A little background:  LAMPF is an 800 MeV proton accelerator,
>operating at 1 milliampere of current.)
>
>  The only values I can find are for energies "greater than 100 MeV"  
>and the like... 

I have just a two-cent knee-jerk guess.  Perhaps at "greater than 100 MeV",
the less-intuitive low-energy QM physics effects are negligible compared to
high-energy CLASSICAL (Some might say "optical") physics effects.

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