  We present a quasiparticle interference study of clean and Mn surface-doped
TaAs, a prototypical Weyl semimetal, to test the screening properties as well
as the stability of Fermi arcs against Coulomb and magnetic scattering.
Contrary to topological insulators, the impurities are effectively screened in
Weyl semimetals. The adatoms significantly enhance the strength of the signal
such that theoretical predictions on the potential impact of Fermi arcs can be
unambiguously scrutinized. Our analysis reveals the existence of three
extremely short, previously unknown scattering vectors. Comparison with theory
traces them back to scattering events between large parallel segments of
spin-split trivial states, strongly limiting their coherence. In sharp contrast
to previous work [R. Batabyal et al., Sci. Adv. 2, e1600709 (2016)], where
similar but weaker subtle modulations were interpreted as evidence of
quasiparticle interference originating from Femi arcs, we can safely exclude
this being the case. Overall, our results indicate that intra- as well as
inter-Fermi arc scattering are strongly suppressed and may explain why-in spite
of their complex multiband structure-transport measurements show signatures of
topological states in Weyl monopnictides.
