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Numerical simulations of radiative processes in magnetized compact sources such as hot accretion disks around black holes, relativistic jets in active galaxies and gamma-ray bursts are complicated because the particle and photon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Indrek Vurm , Juri Poutanen

Model independent radiative correction to the recoil proton polarization for the elastic electron-proton scattering is calculated within method of electron structure functions. The explicit expressions for the recoil proton polarization are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Afanasev , I. Akushevich , N. P. Merenkov

We describe models of nonthermal photon emission from a homogeneous distribution of relativistic electrons and protons. Contributions from the synchrotron, inverse Compton, nonthermal bremsstrahlung and neutral-pion decay processes are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 John C. Houck , Glenn E. Allen

High energies emissions observed in X-ray binaries (XRBs), active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are linearly polarized. The prominent mechanism for X-ray is the Comptonization process. We revisit the theory for polarization in Compton scattering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-25 Nagendra Kumar

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

In this article we propose a numerical algorithm to compute the intensity and polarization of a polychromatic electromagnetic radiation crossing a medium with graded refractive index and modeled by the Vector Radiative Refractive Transfer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Olivier Pironneau

In this paper we study photon emission in the interaction of the laser beam with an under-dense target and the attached reflecting plasma mirror. Photons are emitted due to the inverse Compton scattering when accelerated electrons interact…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 M. Jirka , O. Klimo , Y. J. Gu , S. Weber

The accurate and efficient detection of quantum entanglement remains a central challenge in quantum information science. In this work, we study the detection of entanglement of polarized photons for measurement devices that are solely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Marlene Funck , Ilija Funk , Tizian Schmidt , René Schwonnek

Compton backscattering polarimetry provides a fast and accurate method to measure the polarization of an electron beam in a storage ring. Since the method is non-destructive, the polarization of the electron beam can be monitored during…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Passchier , D. W. Higinbotham , C. W. de Jager , B. E. Norum , N. H. Papadakis , N. P. Vodinas

The explicit formulae for radiative correction (RC) calculation for elastic $ep$-scattering is presented. Two typical measurements of polarization observables such as beam-target asymmetry or recoil proton polarization, are considered.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-17 A. Afanasev , I. Akushevich , N. Merenkov

Relativistic electrons accelerated by both the first-order and the second-order Fermi accelerations in some synchrotron sources have a hybrid shape of thermal and nonthermal energy distribution. This particle acceleration result is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 Jirong Mao , Jiancheng Wang

In this work we present an active Compton scattering polarimeter as a focal plane instrument able to extend the X-ray polarimetry towards hard X-rays. Other authors have already studied various instrument design by means of Monte Carlo…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-08 Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Campana , Enrico Costa , Ettore Del Monte , Fabio Muleri , Alda Rubini , Paolo Soffitta

The frequency distribution of photons in frequency that results from single Compton scattering of monochromatic radiation on thermal electrons is derived in the mildly relativistic limit. Algebraic expressions are given for (1) the photon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Y. Sazonov , R. A. Sunyaev

In medical applications -- such as positron emission tomography (PET) -- $511$keV photons that experience Compton scattering are studied. We present a consistent framework based on error-correction channels to fully describe the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 B. C. Hiesmayr , W. Krzemień , M. Bała

The Compton scattering cross section on the proton has been measured at laboratory angles of 90$^\circ$ and 135$^\circ$ using tagged photons in the energy range 70--100 MeV and simultaneously using untagged photons in the range…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 B. E. MacGibbon , G. Garino , M. A. Lucas , A. M. Nathan , G. Feldman , B. Dolbilkin

We modify the conventional curvature radiation (inverse Compton scattering) + synchrotron radiation polar cap cascade model by including the inverse Compton scattering of the higher generation pairs. Within the framework of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bing Zhang , Alice K. Harding

The subject of nucleon polarizabilities in real, virtual, and doubly virtual Compton scattering is discussed with respect to what is known and how such quantities can be extracted from data.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Barry R. Holstein

The process of the elastic scattering of photons on atoms, known as the Rayleigh scattering, is investigated. Expressing the scattering observables in terms of the electric and magnetic complex scattering amplitudes, we work over the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 A. V. Volotka , A. Surzhykov , S. Fritzsche

We investigate the QED Compton process (QEDCS) in longitudinally polarized lepton-proton scattering both in the elastic and inelastic channels and show that the cross section can be expressed in terms of the polarized equivalent photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-15 A. Mukherjee , C. Pisano

Relativistic electrons, seen in the large diffuse radio halo of the Coma cluster of galaxies, should scatter background photons to higher energies. We calculate the inverse Compton contributions from the microwave background, from the local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Torsten A. Ensslin , Peter L. Biermann