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The concept of Compton scattering by even-even nuclei from giant-resonance to nucleon-resonance energies and the status of experimental and theoretical researches in this field are outlined. Nuclear Compton scattering in the giant-resonance…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 M. -Th. Huett , A. I. L'vov , A. I. Milstein , M. Schumacher

We review the experimental and theoretical status of elastic electron scattering and elastic low-energy photon scattering (with both real and virtual photons) from the nucleon. As a consequence of new experimental facilities and new…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Charles Earl Hyde-Wright , Kees de Jager

The inverse Compton (IC) scattering of relativistic electrons is one of the major gamma-ray production mechanisms in different environments. Often the target photons for the IC scattering are dominated by black (or grey) body radiation. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Dmitry Khangulyan , Felix A. Aharonian , Stanislav R. Kelner

Induced Compton scattering (ICS) is an interaction between intense electro-magnetic radiations and plasmas, where ICS transfers the energy from photons to plasmas. Although ICS is important for laser plasma interactions in laboratory…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-01 Shuta J. Tanaka , Katsuaki Asano , Toshio Terasawa

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

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

Compton scattering of low-frequency radiation by an isotropic distribution of (i) mildly and (ii) ultra relativistic electrons is considered. It is shown that the ensemble-averaged differential cross-section in this case is noticeably…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Sergei Y. Sazonov , Rashid A. Sunyaev

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

3D Compton scattering imaging is an upcoming concept exploiting the scattering of photons induced by the electronic structure of the object under study. The so-called Compton scattering rules the collision of particles with electrons and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Gael Rigaud

Nonlinear single Compton scattering has been thoroughly investigated in the literature under the assumption that initially the electron has a definite momentum. Here, we study a more general initial state, and consider the electron as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-04 A. Angioi , F. Mackenroth , A. Di Piazza

We consider the Compton scattering in the optically thick uniform spherical corona around a neutron star in an X-ray binary. In the scattering, the low energy seed photons (0.1 - 2.5 keV) are scattered in low energy electrons (2.5 - 10 keV)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-22 ChangSheng Shi

The general structure of the cross section of $\gamma N$ scattering with polarized photon and/or nucleon in initial and/or final state is systematically described and exposed through invariant amplitudes. A low-energy expansion of the cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 D. Babusci , G. Giordano , A. I. L'vov , G. Matone , A. M. Nathan

The transport of energy in heated plasmas requires the knowledge of the radiation coefficients. These coefficients consist of contribution of bremsstrahlung, photoionisation, bound-bound transmissions and scattering. Scattering of photons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-12-20 J. Fiedler

The Compton process with the initial states of photons and neutrons described by the density matrices of a general form is studied for low energies of photons. The coherent contribution to the inclusive probability to record a photon is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 P. O. Kazinski , A. A. Sokolov

We discuss a new solution of the Kompaneets-equation for physical situations in which low frequency photons, forming relatively narrow spectral details, are Compton scattered in an isotropic, infinite medium with an intense ambient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Chluba , R. A. Sunyaev

See comments. We calculate analytically an effect of the thermal Comptonization on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons when they propagate through galaxy clusters. We estimate a deformation of the CMB spectrum due to multiple…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-26 Lev Titarchuk , Galina Lipunova

We revisit the kinematics of Compton Scattering (electron-photon interactions producing electrons and photons in the exit channel) covering the full range of energy/momenta distribution between the two colliding particles, with a dedicated…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 Luca Serafini , Vittoria Petrillo

We treat the non-relativistic Compton scattering process in which an incoming photon scatters from an N-electron many-body state to yield an outgoing photon and a recoil electron, without invoking the commonly used frameworks of either the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-11 I. G. Kaplan , B. Barbiellini , A. Bansil

Scattering in a model of a massive quantum-mechanical particle, an ``electron'', interacting with massless, relativistic bosons, ``photons'', is studied. The interaction term in the Hamiltonian of our model describes emission and absorption…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Froehlich , M. Griesemer , B. Schlein

We study the double Compton (DC) process for a wide range of particle energies, extending previous treatments well beyond the soft photon limit, employing both numerical and analytical methods. This allows us to investigate the physics of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-14 Andrea Ravenni , Jens Chluba