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We consider resonant inverse Compton scattering of thermal photons by secondary particles above the pulsar polar gap. The process appears to be an essential energy loss mechanism for the particles. The distribution function of the secondary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. E. Lyubarskii , S. A. Petrova

The paper deals with kinematic conditions for the inverse Compton scattering of photons by relativistic electrons and the polarizations of the colliding particles, which affect the value of the differential cross section of the process. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-06 Kirill Bornikov , Igor Volobuev , Yuri Popov

Based on quantum theory, we investigate the distribution of the electrons scattered in nonlinear Compton effect by an electromagnetic plane wave. Deviations of the final electron momentum from its initial value are solely due to quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Madalina Boca , Victor Dinu , Viorica Florescu

We study the spectrum of high frequency radiation emerging from mildly dissipative photospheres of long-duration gamma-ray burst outflows. Building on the results of recent numerical investigations, we assume that electrons are heated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Davide Lazzati , Mitchell C. Begelman

We present a theoretical study of Compton scattering of X- and $\gamma$-rays by a $K$-shell electron. Special attention is paid to the double-differential cross section and polarization of the scattered photons for linearly polarized…

We extend the eigenfunction method of computing the power-law spectrum of particles accelerated at a relativistic shock fronts to apply to shocks of arbitrarily high Lorentz factor. In agreement with the findings of Monte-Carlo simulations,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. G. Kirk , A. W. Guthmann , Y. A. Gallant , A. Achterberg

We investigated the effects of the momentum spread of photon around incoming electrons during nonlinear Compton scattering of an elliptically polarized laser off an ultrarelativistic electron beam. It has been assumed to be a good…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-13 Ya-Nan Dai , Jing-Jing Jiang , Yu-Hang Jiang , Rashid Shaisultanov , Yue-Yue Chen

A high energy power law is a common feature in the spectra of many astrophysical objects. We show that the photons in a relativistic plasma with a variable Lorentz factor go through repeated scattering with electrons to gain energy. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Mukesh K. Vyas , Asaf Pe'er

We have examined cutoffs and pile-ups due to various processes in the spectra of particles produced by shock acceleration, and found that, even in the absence of energy losses, the shape of the spectrum of accelerated particles at energies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 R. J. Protheroe , Todor Stanev

Recent investigations by Fuchs et al. [Nat. Phys. 11, 964 (2015)] revealed an anomalous frequency shift in non-linear Compton scattering of high-intensity X-rays by electrons in solid beryllium. This frequency shift was at least 800 eV to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Akilesh Venkatesh , Francis Robicheaux

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

Nonlinear Compton scattering is the process of emission of a single photon by a charge driven by an intense laser field. Here, we study the infrared behavior of the photon yield emitted via nonlinear Compton scattering. We first consider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-25 Antonino Di Piazza , Giulio Audagnotto

The inverse Compton scattering of laser light on high-energetic twisted electrons is investigated with the aim to construct spatially structured x-ray beams. In particular, we analyze how the properties of the twisted electrons, such as the…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-04 D. Seipt , A. Surzhykov , S. Fritzsche

Qiao and his collaborators recently proposed an inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) model to explain radio emission of pulsars. In this paper, we investigate the polarization properties of pulsar emission in the model. First of all, using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. X. Xu , J. F. Liu , J. L. Han , G. J. Qiao

We theoretically investigate a scattering configuration in Compton scattering, in which the orientation of the electron spin is reversed and simultaneously, the photon polarization changes from linear polarization into circular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-11 Sven Ahrens , Chang-Pu Sun

We show that an endpoint overlap model can explain the scaling laws observed in exclusive hadronic reactions at large momentum transfer. The model assumes one of the valence quarks carries most of the hadron momentum. Hadron form factors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Sumeet Dagaonkar , Pankaj Jain , John P. Ralston

The process of photon splitting is investigated in the presence of strongly magnetized electron-positron plasma. The amplitude of the process is calculated in general case of plasma with nonzero chemical potential and temperature. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-09-03 M. V. Chistyakov , D. A. Rumyantsev , N. S. Stus'

Theoretical proposals of scaling laws for the differential elastic scattering cross sections of protons are confronted with experimental data over a wide energy range. Different combinations of the transferred momentum and energy resulting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 I. M. Dremin , V. A. Nechitailo

Colliding high energy hadrons either produce new particles or scatter elastically with their quantum numbers conserved and no other particles produced. We consider the latter case here. Although inelastic processes dominate at high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 I. M. Dremin

The elastic and inelastic high--energy small--angle electron--positron scattering is considered. All radiative corrections to the cross--section with the relative accuracy $\delta\sigma/ \sigma = 0.1 \% $ are explicitly taken into account.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 A. B. Arbuzov , V. S. Fadin , E. A. Kuraev , L. N. Lipatov , N. P. Merenkov , L. G. Trentadue