Blue skies and effective interactions

Publication Date

1999

Journal or Book Title

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Abstract

This paper shows how the basic physics of Rayleigh scattering, responsible for the blueness of the sky, can be extracted using the techniques of effective interactions, which have become widespread in contemporary particle and nuclear physics.

Comments

The published version is located at http://ajp.aapt.org/resource/1/ajpias/v67/i5/p422_s1

Pages

422-427

Volume

67

Issue

5

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