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Based upon the rate equations for the photon distribution function obtained in the previous paper, we study the inverse Compton scattering process for high-energy nonthermal electrons. Assuming the power-law electron distribution, we find a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Satoshi Nozawa , Yasuharu Kohyama , Naoki Itoh

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…

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

This paper aims to study the polarization of hard X-ray (HXR) sources in the solar atmosphere, including Compton backscattering of photons in the photosphere (the albedo effect) and the spatial distribution of polarization across the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Natasha Jeffrey , Eduard Kontar

Nonlinear Compton scattering is calculated for the collision of an electron with a plane wave pulse. A mid infra-red (IR) peak arises in the photon spectrum due to long-range interference associated with the pulse envelope. The case of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-03 B. King

A formulation for the parametric instability of electromagnetic (EM) waves in magnetized pair plasma is developed. The linear growth rate of induced Compton scattering is derived analytically for frequencies below the cyclotron frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-14 Rei Nishiura , Shoma F. Kamijima , Masanori Iwamoto , Kunihito Ioka

Using fully relativistic GEANT4 simulation tool kit, the transport of energetic electrons generated in solar flares was Monte-Carlo simulated, and resultant bremsstrahlung gamma-ray spectra were calculated. The solar atmosphere was…

Compton scattering is usually explained in terms of the relativistic mass and momentum. Here, a mathematically equivalent and simple non-relativistic interpretation shows that the Compton frequency shift is equal to the de Broglie frequency…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Raji Heyrovska

Theory of electron-acoustic single phonon scattering has been reconsidered. It is assumed that the non-degenerate semiconductor has a spherical parabolic band structure. In the basis of the reconsideration there is a phenomenon of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 S. V. Melkonyan , A. L. Harutyunyan , T. A. Zalinyan

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

We review known and discuss new signatures of high-intensity Compton scattering assuming a scenario where a high-power laser is brought into collision with an electron beam. At high intensities one expects to see a substantial red-shift of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 Chris Harvey , Thomas Heinzl , Anton Ilderton

We propose a feasible scenario to directly polarize a relativistic electron beam and obtain overall polarization in various directions through a filter mechanism for single-shot collision between an ultrarelativistic unpolarized electron…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Yuhui Tang , Qianyi Ma , Jinqing Yu , Yinren Shou , Xuezhi Wu , Xueqing Yan

The new scheme of the energy measurement of the extremely high energy electron beam with the inverse Compton scattering between electrons and microwave photons requires the precise calculation of the interaction cross section of electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Meiyu Si , Shanhong Chen , Yongsheng Huang , Manqi Ruan , Guangyi Tang , Xiaofei Lan , Yuan Chen , Xinchou Lou

Future ultrafast x-ray light sources might image ultrafast coherent electron motion in real-space and in real-time. For a rigorous understanding of such an imaging experiment, we extend the theory of non-resonant x-ray scattering to the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Gopal Dixit , Jan Malte Slowik , Robin Santra

Scattering of nonstationary electromagnetic fields from axially symmetrical bodies is numerically investigated. Simulations are performed using the time- and frequency-domain approaches. Computational results obtained for a finite perfectly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. G. Efimova

A setup of a unique x-ray source is put forward employing a relativistic electron beam interacting with two counter-propagating laser pulses in the nonlinear few-photon regime. In contrast to Compton scattering sources, the envisaged x-ray…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Q. Z. Lv , E. Raicher , C. H. Keitel , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan

Compton scattering is one of the few spectroscopies which directly probes the ground state momentum density in materials. Recent progress in synchrotron light sources has brought a renewed interest in the technique as a tool for…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Bansil , B. Barbiellini

Several observables for the deeply virtual Compton scattering process have been simulated in the kinematic regime of a proposed Electron-Ion Collider to explore the possible impact of such measurements for the phenomenological access of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Elke-Caroline Aschenauer , Salvatore Fazio , Kresimir Kumericki , Dieter Mueller

We present simple and accurate analytical formulae for the rates of Compton scattering by relativistic electrons integrated over the energy distribution of blackbody seed photons. Both anisotropic scattering, in which blackbody photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Patryk Pjanka

We discuss intensity effects in collisions between beams of optical photons from a high-power laser and relativistic electrons. Our main focus are the modifications of the emission spectra due to realistic finite-beam geometries. By…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 T. Heinzl , D. Seipt , B. Kampfer