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Neutron Compton scattering measurements have the potential to provide direct information about atomic momentum distributions and adiabatic energy surfaces in condensed matter. First applied to measuring the condensate fraction in superfluid…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Greg Watson

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 the application of an effective field theory (EFT) which incorporates the chiral symmetry of QCD to Compton scattering from the proton and deuteron. We describe the chiral EFT analysis of the proton Compton scattering database…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Daniel R. Phillips , Judith A. McGovern , Harald W. Griesshammer

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

Compton scattering of a laser beam with a relativistic electron beam has been used to generate intense, highly polarized and nearly monoenergetic x-ray or gamma-ray beams at many facilities. The ability to predict the spatial, spectral and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-05-09 Changchun Sun , Ying K. Wu

The electromagnetic processes of Compton scattering and photon splitting/merging are investigated in the presence of strongly magnetized electron-positron plasma. The influence of these processes on the radiation transfer in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-01 M. V. Chistyakov , D. A. Rumyantsev

The elastic scattering differential cross section is calculated for proton scattering from $^6$He at 717 MeV, using single scattering terms of the multiple scattering expansion of the total transition amplitude (MST). We analyse the effects…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Crespo , A. M. Moro , I. J. Thompson

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 of polarized radiation in a strong magnetic field is considered. The recipe for calculation of the scattering matrix elements, the differential and total cross sections based on quantum electrodynamic (QED) second order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-11 Alexander A. Mushtukov , Dmitrij I. Nagirner , Juri Poutanen

We study single, double and higher-order nonlinear Compton scattering where an electron interacts nonlinearly with a high-intensity laser and emits one, two or more photons. We study, in particular, how double Compton scattering is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 Victor Dinu , Greger Torgrimsson

Compton telescopes rely on the dominant interaction mechanism in the MeV gamma-ray energy range: Compton scattering. By precisely recording the position and energy of multiple Compton scatter interactions in a detector volume, a photon's…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Carolyn Kierans , Tadayuki Takahashi , Gottfried Kanbach

Compton scattering of twisted photons is investigated within a non-relativistic framework using first-order perturbation theory. We formulate the problem in the density matrix theory, which enables one to gain new insights into scattering…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 S. Stock , A. Surzhykov , S. Fritzsche , D. Seipt

Low-energy Compton scattering is an important background for sub-GeV dark matter direct-detection and other experiments. Current Compton scattering calculations typically rely on assumptions that are not valid in the low-energy region of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-05 Rouven Essig , Yonit Hochberg , Yutaro Shoji , Aman Singal , Gregory Suczewski

In the calculation of probabilities of physical processes occurring in a background classical field, the local constant field approximation (LCFA) relies on the possibility of neglecting the space-time variation of the external field within…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-31 A. Di Piazza , M. Tamburini , S. Meuren , C. H. Keitel

We use effective field theory (EFT) to calculate the scattering amplitude of a LIGO-like graviton-scalar Compton interaction. We gauge the center-of-momentum energy $\sqrt{s}$ between one gravitational-wave (GW) graviton (one quantum of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-08 Noah M. MacKay

The backward Compton scattering is a basic process at future higher energy photon colliders. To obtain a high probability of e->gamma conversion the density of laser photons in the conversion region should be so high that simultaneous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Galynskii , E. Kuraev , M. Levchuk , V. Telnov

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

All-optical Compton sources combine laser wakefield accelerators and intense scattering pulses to generate ultrashort bursts of backscattered radiation. The scattering pulse plays the role of a short-period undulator in which relativistic…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-05-25 Andreas Döpp , Igor Andriyash , Kim Ta Phuoc

Electron microscopy is a powerful tool for studying the properties of materials down to their atomic structure. In many cases, the quantitative interpretation of images requires simulations based on atomistic structure models. These…

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