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We calculate the Thomson scattering cross section in a non-relativistic, magnetized, high density plasma -- in a regime where collective excitations can be described by magnetohydrodynamics. We show that, in addition to cyclotron resonances…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Archie F. A. Bott , Gianluca Gregori

The process of Compton scattering $\gamma e^{\pm} \to \gamma e^{\pm}$ in a strongly magnetized medium of arbitrary temperature and zeroth chemical potential was considered. The analytical expressions for the partial cross section in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Chistyakov , D. A. Rumyantsev

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

We extend de concept of Compton scattering to the case of plasmons. This concept was originally applied to electrons in vacuum. Here, we consider electrons in a plasma, and study the scattering properties of photon-plasmon interactions. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 José Tito Mendonça , Fernando Haas

Collective X-ray Thomson scattering has become a versatile tool for the diagnostics of dense plasmas. Assuming homogeneous density and temperature throughout the target sample, these parameters can be determined directly from the plasmon…

Compton scattering is a key process shaping spectra formation and accretion flow dynamics in accreting strongly magnetized neutron stars. A strong magnetic field affects the scattering cross section and makes it dependent on photon energy,…

We present a unified theoretical framework for induced (stimulated) scattering-parametric instabilities of electromagnetic waves, including induced Compton, stimulated Brillouin, and stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) in strongly magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-16 Rei Nishiura , Shoma F. Kamijima , Kunihito Ioka

This paper explores the effects of strong magnetic fields on the Compton scattering of relativistic electrons. Recent studies of upscattering and energy loss by relativistic electrons that have used the non-relativistic, magnetic Thomson…

We investigate induced Compton scattering of a circularly polarized Alfv\'en wave propagating in a magnetized electron-positron pair plasma using one-dimensional Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations. In this system, two distinct modes of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-06 Shoma F. Kamijima , Rei Nishiura , Masanori Iwamoto , Kunihito Ioka

Thomson scattering in non-ideal (collision-dominated) two-component plasmas is calculated accounting for electron-ion collisions as well as electron-electron correlations. This is achieved by using a novel interpolation scheme for the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Carsten Fortmann , August Wierling , Gerd Röpke

Collective Thomson scattering (CTS) in a beam-plasma system is reproduced by using 2D PIC simulations and the characteristics of the scattered wave spectrum are examined. By formulating the geometric shape of the scattered wave spectrum in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Yuma Sato , Shuichi Matsukiyo

We investigate induced Compton/Brillouin scattering of electromagnetic waves in magnetized electron and positron pair plasma by verifying kinetic theory with Particle-in-Cell simulations. Applying this to fast radio bursts (FRBs) in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-28 Rei Nishiura , Shoma F. Kamijima , Kunihito Ioka

Gravitational waves (GW) propagating through a magnetised plasma excite low-frequency magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. In this paper we investigate whether these waves can produce observable radio emission at higher frequencies by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joachim Moortgat , Jan Kuijpers

It is shown that induced Raman scattering of electromagnetic waves in the strongly magnetized electron-positron plasma of pulsar magnetosphere may be important for wave propagation and as an effective saturation mechanism for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Maxim Lyutikov

Angular distributions of Thomson scattering are researched in the combined fields with a circularly polarization of laser field and a strong uniform magnetic field. The trajectories of the electron and the dependence of it on the initial…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 Li Zhao , Zhijing Chen , Chun Jiang , Jian Huang , Chong Lv , Bai-Song Xie , Hai-Bo Sang

We explore the physics of electron acceleration in a plasma medium in an effective field theory framework. Employing a multiple Compton scattering mechanism, it is found that the acceleration can be sustained in such a medium so as to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-03-07 Ravindra Kumar , V. Ravishankar

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

Compton scattering is the nonresonant inelastic scattering of an x-ray photon by an electron and has been used to probe the electron momentum distribution in gas-phase and condensed-matter samples. In the low x-ray intensity regime, Compton…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-16 Sang-Kil Son , Otfried Geffert , Robin Santra

We consider the resonant scattering of coherent electromagnetic waves by a Raman-like process in the gamma ray range off electrostatic modes in a quantum plasma using a collective Klein-Gordon-Maxwell model. The growth rates for the most…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-05-31 Bengt Eliasson , Chuan S. Liu

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
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