Eur. Phys. J. A (2015) 51: 69
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2015-15069-0

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

The modified Woods-Saxon potential in the Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau equation

¹ Physics Department, University of Shahrood, Shahrood, Iran
² Department of Basic Sciences, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran

^* e-mail: h.hasanabadi@shahroodut.ac.ir

Received: 8 April 2015
Revised: 28 May 2015
Accepted: 30 May 2015
Published online: 23 June 2015

Abstract

The scattering properties of the one-dimensional Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau (DKP) equation are studied for the modified Woods-Saxon potential. The scattering wave function, explicit formulas for the transmission and reflection coefficients are obtained in terms of hypergeometric function.