Electric Excitation and Disintegration of Nuclei. I. Excitation and Disintegration of Nuclei by the Coulomb Field of Positive Particles

General formulas for the cross section for the $2^l$-pole excitation (or disintegration) of a nucleus by the electric field of a non-relativistic positively charged projectile have been obtained by using the Born approximation; the finite size of the nucleus has been taken into account. For electric dipole and quadrupole excitation a more accurate evaluation has been made in which the initial and final states of the charged projectile are described by the exact coulomb field wave functions.