Coulomb scattering

Coulomb scattering is like when you throw a ball at a wall and it bounces back. But instead of a ball and a wall, we have tiny things called particles and they have an electric charge. When one of these charged particles comes close to another charged particle, they can either bounce off of each other or change direction. It's like trying to walk straight through a crowd of people – sometimes you have to zig zag around them to keep going. This is what happens with these charged particles. And just like how the ball bounces off the wall differently depending on how hard you throw it and how bouncy the wall is, the particles can bounce off each other at different angles and speeds depending on how much electric charge they have and how close they are to each other. Scientists study Coulomb scattering to better understand how particles interact with each other and how they move around.