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The presence of two photon exchange in $ep$ elastic scattering and in the crossed processes ($\bar p +p\leftrightarrow \ell^+ +\ell^-$, $\ell=e$ or $\mu$) is discussed in terms of three complex amplitudes which are functions of two…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Tomasi-Gustafsson

The matrix element squared for Compton scattering of a heavy photon on a longitudinally polarized electron is calculated. The gauge-invariant tensor structure of the heavy photon polarization is considered, assuming that all kinematical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 I. Akushevich , A. B. Arbuzov , E. A. Kuraev

The method and results of the first theory description of 4He Compton scattering at nuclear energies is presented, with a focus on figures. An upcoming publication [1] contains details and a comprehensive list of references.

We study the polarization of an electron scattered by different static potentials. The initial state of the electron is chosen as a wavepacket to construct the definite orbital angular momentum, and the final polarization of the electron,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-21 Hao-Hao Peng , Ren-Hong Fang

We investigate spontaneous photon emission processes of two-level atoms in parabolic and ellipsoidal cavities thereby taking into account the full multimode scenario. In particular, we calculate the excitation probabilities of the atoms and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 Gernot Alber , Nils Trautmann

General expressions for all parity-conserving polarization observables of elastic electron-nucleon scattering in the one-photon exchange approximation are derived for a general frame of reference, i.e.\ not assumming scattering off a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-15 H. Arenhövel

The helicity amplitudes of the high-energy photon splitting in the external Coulomb field are obtained exactly in the parameter $\al$. The cases of screened and unscreened potentials are investigated. The consideration is based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. N. Lee , A. I. Milstein , V. M. Strakhovenko

The exact wave functions, which describe the states of an electron, bound in the image potential, and the magnetic field, which is perpendicular to surface of a metal, are obtained. The correction terms to the energy of an electron in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 P. A. Golovinski , M. A. Preobrazhenskiy

Laser pulses traveling through a plasma can feature group velocities significantly differing from the speed of light in vacuum. This modifies the well-known Volkov states of an electron inside a strong laser-field from the vacuum case and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 F. Mackenroth , N. Kumar , N. Neitz , C. H. Keitel

Compton scattering is the nonresonant inelastic scattering of an x-ray photon by an electron and has been used to probe the electron momentum distribution in gas-phase and condensed-matter samples. In the low x-ray intensity regime, Compton…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-16 Sang-Kil Son , Otfried Geffert , Robin Santra

Many optically active systems possess spatially asymmetric electron orbitals. These generate permanent dipole moments, which can be stronger than the corresponding transition dipole moments, significantly affecting the system dynamics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Adam Burgess , Marian Florescu , Dominic Michael Rouse

The work examines the effect of multiple photon emission on the quantum mechanical state of an electron emitting synchrotron radiation and on the intensity of that radiation. Calculations are done with the variant of perturbation theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. M. Filippov

We demonstrated for the first time the production of highly polarized short-pulse positrons with a finite energy spread in accordance with a new scheme that consists of two-quantum processes, such as inverse Compton scatterings and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Omori , M. Fukuda , T. Hirose , Y. Kurihara , R. Kuroda , M. Nomura , A. Ohashi , T. Okugi , K. Sakaue , T. Saito , J. Urakawa , M. Washio , I. Yamazaki

Nonlinear phenomena of lepton-photon interactions in external backgrounds with a generalised periodic plane-wave geometry are studied. We discuss nonlinear Compton scattering in head-on lepton-photon collisions extended properly to beyond…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-09 Ibrahim Akal , Gudrid Moortgat-Pick

The scattering phase shift of an electron transferred through a quantum dot is studied within a model Hamiltonian, accounting for both the electron--electron interaction in the dot and a finite temperature. It is shown that, unlike in an…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Yuval Oreg , Yuval Gefen

We consider the radiative transfer problem in a plane-parallel slab of thermal electrons in the presence of an overcritical magnetic field. Under such conditions, the magnetic field behaves as a birefringent medium for the propagating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-19 C. Ceccobello , R. Farinelli , L. Titarchuk

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…

This paper describes the use of Feynman photon path integrals to compute the probability of detecting reflected, diffracted, and scattered photons at different points in space after interacting with conduction electrons. Five examples are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Stephen E. Derenzo

We give an overview of low-energy Compton scattering (gamma^(*) p --> gamma p) with a real or virtual incoming photon. These processes allow the investigation of one of the fundamental properties of the nucleon, i.e. how its internal…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-09-23 E. J. Downie , H. Fonvieille

The hadronic quark structure is investigated in the frame of high energy electron proton scattering. A phenomenological model based on the Born approximation is used to calculate the transition matrix element for the quark system forming…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 M. T. Hussein , N. M. Hassan