Electron-electron collision completely elastic?

Electron 1 flies with the speed v = 50 meters/second
Electron 2 flies with the speed v = 50 meters/second
The electrons fly directly towards each other, collide at a 180° angle, and fly away from each other again at a 180° angle in the opposite direction.

What is the speed of electron 1 and electron 2 after the collision?
Is the collision perfectly elastic?

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Reggid
2 years ago

Electron-electron scattering is called Møller scattering.

first approach is the process elastic.

in higher order of the disorder theory, of course, the radiation of photons also occurs.

mjutu
2 years ago

Accelerated charges emit electromagnetic waves. So the bump must be inelastic. However, according to current knowledge, electrons are punctiform. This makes it impossible to make them meet exactly. The question becomes physically insane.

mjutu
2 years ago
Reply to  ZuNiceFrage

An electron-positron collision is something else, because the two draw each other because of the unequal charges. With two electrons, however, an almost infinitely small deviation from the central impact is sufficient to allow the two to escape.

If the impact is full elastic and the kinetic energy after impact is the same?

This is not possible. The conclusion as a premise is not meaningful. One example: "Is there a unicorn when collapsing a gold and a carbon atom in which a unicorn is formed?" Sure?

mjutu
2 years ago

Even if it is a point, this point has an extent and cannot be 0

No. Point has the extension 0.

But it seems to you that there were electron collisions in particle accelerators.

You probably mean "apparently," not "apparently."

Do you have a source indication for measuring an elastic impact between two electrodes with 180° backlash? How would you mark the electrons to filter out the events where the electrons flew past each other with 0° scatter?

Electron-electron scattering is easy to observe in the Compton effect, even without particle accelerator.