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The dark photon is a new gauge boson that naturally arises in many beyond the Standard Model theoretical models, featuring interactions that resemble quantum electrodynamics. Due to this feature, it is often considered the portal between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 L. Angel , G. Casse , G. Gambini , A. S. de Jesus , V. Kozhuharov , A. Machado , F. S. Queiroz , E. Segreto , J. Smirnov

We consider the inverse problem of determining the geometry of penetrable objects from scattering data generated by one incident wave at a fixed frequency. We first study an orthogonality sampling type method which is fast, simple to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Thu Le , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Vu Nguyen , Trung Truong

Density reconstruction from X-ray projections is an important problem in radiography with key applications in scientific and industrial X-ray computed tomography (CT). Often, such projections are corrupted by unknown sources of noise and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Siddhant Gautam , Marc L. Klasky , Balasubramanya T. Nadiga , Trevor Wilcox , Gary Salazar , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Reconstructing the unknown spectrum of a given X-ray source is a common problem in a wide range of X-ray imaging tasks. For high-energy sources, transmission measurements are mostly used to recover the X-ray spectrum, as a solution to an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Arthur Walker , Alexandre Friou , Kevin Ginsburger

The physics basis for an electron-beam based Compton scattering (ECOS) x-ray source is investigated for single-shot experiments at major high energy density facilities such as the Omega Laser Facility, National Ignition Facility, and Z…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 H. G. Rinderknecht , G. Bruhaug , V. Muşat , G. Gregori , H. Poole , G. W. Collins

X-ray Compton spectroscopy is one of the few direct probes of the electron momentum distribution of bulk materials in ambient and operando environments. We report high-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering experiments with high momentum and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-30 U. Patel , T. Guruswamy , A. J. Krzysko , H. Charalambous , L. Gades , K. Wiaderek , O. Quaranta , Y. Ren , A. Yakovenko , A. Miceli

This paper proposes a systematic mathematical analysis of both the direct and inverse acoustic scattering problem given the source in Radon measure space. For the direct problem, we investigate the well-posedness including the existence,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Xueshuang Xiang , Hongpeng Sun

X-ray scattering is a weak linear probe of matter. It is primarily sensitive to the position of electrons and their momentum distribution. Elastic X-ray scattering forms the basis of atomic structural determination while inelastic Compton…

We present a new method for determining the sensitivity of X-ray imaging observations, which correctly accounts for the observational biases that affect the probability of detecting a source of a given X-ray flux, without the need to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Georgakakis , K. Nandra , E. S. Laird , J. Aird , M. Trichas

Three-dimensional phase contrast imaging of multiply-scattering samples in X-ray and electron microscopy is extremely challenging, due to small numerical apertures, the unavailability of wavefront shaping optics, and the highly nonlinear…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Philipp M Pelz , Hamish G Brown , Jim Ciston , Scott D Findlay , Yaqian Zhang , Mary Scott , Colin Ophus

X-ray dark-field or ultra-small angle scatter imaging has become increasingly important since the introduction of phase-based x-ray imaging and is having transformative impact in fields such as in vivo lung imaging and explosives detection.…

Two-dimensional angular correlation of annihilation radiation (2D-ACAR) and Compton scattering are both powerful techniques to investigate the bulk electronic structure of crystalline solids through the momentum density of the electrons.…

The inverse scattering problem from the multi-frequency backscattering data is a long-standing open problem. We advance the theory by proving a local uniqueness result. Moreover, we introduce a direct sampling method for quantitatively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Yukun Guo , Xiaodong Liu

Most bright sources of the radiation in hard x-ray and gamma--ray regions are undulator sources and Compton based ones. These sources are ultimate for production of polarized positrons necessary for future linear colliders ILC, CLIC. We…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 Eugene Bulyak , Nikolay Shul'ga

Purpose: Electron density is the most important tissue property influencing photon and ion dose distributions in radiotherapy patients. Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) enables the determination of electron density by combining the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-06-29 Christian Möhler , Patrick Wohlfahrt , Christian Richter , Steffen Greilich

One of the major goals of research for laser-plasma accelerators is the realization of compact sources of femtosecond X-rays. In particular, using the modest electron energies obtained with existing laser systems, Compton scattering a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 K. Ta Phuoc , S. Corde , C. Thaury , V. Malka , A. Tafzi , J. P. Goddet , R. C. Shah , S. Sebban , A. Rousse

Compton scatter tomography is an emerging technique with attractive applications in several fields in imaging such as non-destructive testing and medical scanning. In this paper, we introduce a novel modality in three dimensions with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Javier Cebeiro , Cecilia Tarpau , Marcela Morvidone , Diana Rubio , Mai Nguyen

Photons preferentially Compton scatter perpendicular to the plane of polarisation. This property can be exploited to design instruments to measure the linear polarisation of hard X-rays ($\sim$10 - 100 keV). Photons may undergo two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-25 Ettore Del Monte , Sergio Fabiani , Mark Pearce

Inverse scattering is the process of estimating the spatial distribution of the scattering potential of an object by measuring the scattered wavefields around it. In this paper, we consider reflection tomography of high contrast objects…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Ajinkya Kadu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

In this paper we present a method of scintillation detector energy calibration using the gamma-rays. The technique is based on the Compton scattering of gamma-rays in a scintillation detector and subsequent photoelectric absorption of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-20 S. V. Bakhlanov , N. V. Bazlov , A. V. Derbin , I. S. Drachnev , A. S. Kayunov , V. N. Muratova , D. A. Semenov , E. V. Unzhakov