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Compton scattering between electrons and photons plays a crucial role in astrophysical plasmas. Many important aspects of this process can be captured by using the so-called Compton scattering kernel. For isotropic media, exact analytic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-03 Abir Sarkar , Jens Chluba , Elizabeth Lee

Repeated Compton scattering of photons with thermal electrons is one of the fundamental processes at work in many astrophysical plasma. Solving the exact evolution equations is hard and one common simplification is based on Fokker-Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Sandeep Kumar Acharya , Jens Chluba , Abir Sarkar

A kinetic equation for Compton scattering is given that differs from the Kompaneets equation in several significant ways. By using an inverse differential operator this equation allows treatment of problems for which the radiation field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 George B. Rybicki

Interactions between photons and electrons are ubiquitous in astrophysics. Photons can be down scattered (Compton scattering) or up scattered (inverse Compton scattering) by moving electrons. Inverse Compton scattering, in particular, is an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Anderson C. M. Lai , Kenny C. Y. Ng

We present a Monte Carlo collisional scheme that models single Compton scattering between leptons and photons in particle-in-cell codes. The numerical implementation of Compton scattering can deal with macro-particles of different weights…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 F. Del Gaudio , T. Grismayer , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

We present a unified view of the frequency dependence of the various scattering processes involved when a neutral hydrogen atom interacts with a monochromatic, linearly-polarized photon. A computational approach is employed of the atom…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-06-06 Swaantje J. Grunefeld , Michael W. J. Bromley , Yongjun Cheng

We describe upgrades to a numerical code which computes synchrotron and inverse-Compton emission from relativistic plasma including full polarization. The introduced upgrades concern scattering kernel which is now capable of scattering the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 M. Moscibrodzka

Compton scattering plays an important role in various astrophysical objects such as accreting black holes and neutron stars, pulsars, and relativistic jets, clusters of galaxies as well as the early Universe. In most of the calculations it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-07-22 Juri Poutanen , Indrek Vurm

The Compton scattering process plays significant roles in atomic and molecular physics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics and material science. It could provide useful information on the electromagnetic interaction between light and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-11 Chen-Kai Qiao , Jian-Wei Wei , Lin Chen

Compton scattering is one of the cornerstones of quantum physics, describing the fundamental interaction of a charged particle with photons. The Compton effect and its inverse are utilized in experiments driving free electrons by high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Majed Khalaf , Ido Kaminer

Compton scattering of photons by nonrelativistic particles is thought to play an important role in forming the radiation spectrum of many astrophysical systems. Here we derive the time-dependent photon kinetic equation that describes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dimitrios Psaltis , Frederick K. Lamb

An analytic formula is given for the total scattering cross section of an electron and a photon at order $\alpha^3$. This includes both the double-Compton scattering real-emission contribution as well as the virtual Compton scattering part.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-18 Roman N. Lee , Matthew D. Schwartz , Xiaoyuan Zhang

In the field of optics and nanophotonics, simulation of electromagnetic scattering plays a major role in the study of complex nanostructures and optical devices. The numerical analysis of scattering spectra, even for nanocavities with…

Compton scattering by a locally plane parallel atmosphere is analyzed within the Kompaneets approximation. In contrast to almost all previous analytic calculations of inverse Compton scattering, we assume neither homogeneity nor isotropy of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert V. Wagoner , Alexander S. Silbergleit

We present results of explicit asymptotic approximations applied to neutrino--electron scattering in a representative model of neutrino population evolution under conditions characteristic of core-collapse supernova explosions or binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-15 Aaron Lackey-Stewart , Raghav Chari , Adam Cole , Nick Brey , Kyle Gregory , Ryan Crowley , Mike Guidry , Eirik Endeve

{\it Ab initio} quantum-mechanical calculations of the differential and integrated cross sections of the elastic scattering, Stark transitions, and Coulomb de-excitation at collisions of excited $\mu^- p$ and $\mu^- d$ atoms with hydrogen…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-03 V. P. Popov , V. N. Pomerantsev

Multi-group method is an accepted technique for approximately solving the equation of radiative transfer. In this paper, group averaged transfer scattering cross sections, required for solving the equation of radiative transfer in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-08-31 J. Fiedler

Previous work on calculating energy spectra from Compton scattering events has either neglected considering the pulsed structure of the incident laser beam, or has calculated these effects in an approximate way subject to criticism. In this…

A theoretical possibility to determine the proton Compton scattering cross section from the reaction $ep\rightarrow ep\gamma$ is studied in the kinematics with a small transversal momentum transfer in the electron leg. With the exception of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 A. I. Lvov , V. A. Petrunkin , S. G. Popov , B. B. Wojtsekhowski

Radiative corrections (RC) to the Compton scattering cross section are calculated in the leading and next-to leading logarithmic approximation to the case of colliding high energy photon-electron beams. RC to the double Compton scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. N. Ilyichev , E. A. Kuraev , V. Bytev , Yu. P. Peresun'ko
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