Quantum diffraction grating. A possible new description of nuclear elastic scattering

Abstract

The problem of discontinuous functions and their representations in the form of Legendre polynomial series in quantum nuclear scattering theory is presented briefly. The problem is quite old yet not adequately explained in numerous Quantum Theory textbooks and sometimes not correctly understood by physicists. This problem might be quite important in interpretation and analyses of nuclear elastic scattering data and so requires to be stated in a more detailed and clear way.