Abstract
We investigate the influence of the off-shell effects on the scattering processes in the presence of a laser field in view of the recent experiments by Wallbank and Holmes. In these experiments a large discrepancy between the observed data for small-angle scattering and the on-shell Kroll - Watson formula was reported. We show in the present work that the off-shell effects are not responsible for this discrepancy by presenting results for the differential cross sections obtained, using the off-shell low-frequency approximation and the [1,1] Padé approximation. We model the scattering from helium and argon atoms by the scattering on a Yukawa-type potential. We show, using some examples, that higher laser field frequencies and intensities are necessary for obtaining observable off-shell effects. We also comment on possibilities of explaining the Wallbank and Holmes results. For one of these possibilities - double scattering - we compute, using our simple model, the relative differential cross sections and obtain a qualitative agreement with the experiments of Wallbank and Holmes, both for helium and argon.
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