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The paper provides a tutorial to the conceptual layout of a self-consistently coupled Particle-In-Cell/Test-Particle model for the kinetic simulation of sputtering transport in capacitively coupled plasmas at low gas pressures. It explains…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-27 Jan Trieschmann , Frederik Schmidt , Thomas Mussenbrock

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

We model the emission of high energy photons due to relativistic charged particle motion in intense laser-plasma interactions. This is done within a particle-in-cell code, for which high frequency radiation normally cannot be resolved due…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-14 Erik Wallin , Arkady Gonoskov , Mattias Marklund

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 present work theoretically investigates the probability of generation of entangled electron-photon pair in high-energy Compton scattering of unpolarized electrons and photons due to scattering-channel-exchange mechanism. The study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-15 Basudev Nag Chowdhury , Sanatan Chattopadhyay

This chapter is devoted to the computation of equilibrium (thermodynamic) properties of quantum systems. In particular, we will be interested in the situation where the interaction between particles is so strong that it cannot be treated as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Alexei Filinov , Jens Böning , Michael Bonitz

We describe a code designed for hot media {(T $\ge$} a few 10$^4$ K), optically thick to Compton scattering. It computes the structure of a plane-parallel slab of gas in thermal and ionization equilibrium, illuminated on one side or on both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Anne-Marie Dumont , Suzy Collin

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

We discuss the theoretical approach and practical algorithms for simulation of radiative events in elastic ep-scattering. A new Monte Carlo generator for real photon emission events in the process of elastic electron-proton scattering is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. V. Afanasev , I. Akushevich , A. Ilyichev , B. Niczyporuk

We consider the scattering of neutrons and photons on solid volume rectangular targets. It is common to treat this problem using the Maxwell Boltzmann Transport Equation and to use underlying symmetries to simplify the calculation. For…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Eric V. Steinfelds , Keith Andrew

The beam energy measurement system for the VEPP-2000 electron-positron collider is described. The method of Compton backscattering of $CO$ laser photons on the electron beam is used. The relative systematic uncertainty of the beam energy…

The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) and Monte Carlo Collisions (MCC) methods are workhorses of many numerical simulations of physical systems. Recently, it was pointed out that, while the two methods can be exactly - or nearly - energy-conserving…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Jean-Luc Vay , Justin Ray Angus , Olga Shapoval , Remi Lehe , David Grote , Axel Huebl

We investigated the effect of inverse Compton scattering in mildly relativistic static and moving plasmas with low optical depth using Monte Carlo simulations, and calculated the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the cosmic background radiation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. M. Molnar , M. Birkinshaw

Several models for the simulation of photon elastic scattering are quantitatively evaluated with respect to a large collection of experimental data retrieved from the literature. They include models based on the form factor approximation,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 Matej Batic , Gabriela Hoff , Maria Grazia Pia , Paolo Saracco

The recent development of energy-resolving scintillation crystals opens the way to new types of applications and imaging systems. In the context of computerized tomography (CT), it enables to use the energy as a dimension of information…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Lorenz Kuger , Gael Rigaud

The MeV Gamma-Gamma Collider would provide a direct experimental platform for elastic light-by-light scattering ($\gamma\gamma \to \gamma\gamma$) and the Breit-Wheeler process with two real photons ($\gamma\gamma \to e^+e^-$). A Monte Carlo…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-30 Ping Zhou , Meiyu Si , Yuanjie Bi , Illya Drebot , Yongsheng Huang

Formulas to describe the photoabsorption and the photon scattering by a plasma or a liquid metal are derived in a unified manner with each other. It is shown how the nuclear motion, the free-electron motion and the core-electron behaviour…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Junzo Chihara

Studies of Compton scattering by relativistic electrons in a strong magnetic field have been restricted to either incident photon angles $\theta'$ aligned along the magnetic field $B$ or incident photon energies $\omega'$ below the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Jeanette I Weise

Inverse Compton scattering of an ultra-relativistic electron in the field of a high-intensity laser produces photon beams with angular and spectral distributions that are strongly dependent on the laser intensity. Here, we show that the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 K. Fleck , T. Blackburn , E. Gerstmayr , M. Bruschi , P. Grutta , M. Morandin , G. Sarri

We introduce a Monte-Carlo algorithm for the simulation of charged particles moving in the continuum. Electrostatic interactions are not instantaneous as in conventional approaches, but are mediated by a constrained, diffusing electric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Joerg Rottler , A. C. Maggs