Open AccessOn the effect of the magneton in the scattering of α -rays
Publication year - 1914
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1914.0059
Subject(s) - simple (philosophy) , plane (geometry) , scattering , magnetic field , physics , atom (system on chip) , object (grammar) , atomic physics , theoretical physics , quantum mechanics , mathematics , geometry , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , artificial intelligence , embedded system
The present communication is intended to illustrate a remark made in the discussion on the constitution of the atom at the meeting of the Society on March 19. Its object is no more than to show that the molecular magnetic fields discovered by Weiss are very efficient agents in the scattering ofα - andβ -particles. For this purpose the simple case of charged particles moving in the equatorial plane of a fixed magnetic doublet is considered without taking account of a central nuclear charge. The solution of this simple problem will be sufficient to enable a rough estimate of the magnitude of the effect to be formed. Suppose the plane of the paper to be the equatorial plane of the doublet situated at O (figs. 1, 2) with its north pole above the paper so that the field is down through the paper and is equal to M/r 3 .