In scattering theory and in particular in nuclear physics and particle physics, elastic scattering is one of the specific forms of scattering. In this process, the kinetic energy of the incident particles is conserved in the Center-Of-Mass frame, only their direction of propagation is modified (by interaction with other particles and/or a potential).
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