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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

The inverse Compton (IC) scattering of relativistic electrons is one of the major gamma-ray production mechanisms in different environments. Often the target photons for the IC scattering are dominated by black (or grey) body radiation. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Dmitry Khangulyan , Felix A. Aharonian , Stanislav R. Kelner

Anomalous production of low-energy photons from the galactic center have fueled speculations on the nature and properties of dark matter particles. In particular, it has been proposed that light scalars may be responsible for the bulk of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-12-13 Sven Heinemeyer , Yonatan Kahn , Michael Schmitt , Mayda Velasco

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

Interactions between photons and electrons are ubiquitous in astrophysics. Photons can be down scattered (Compton scattering) or up scattered (inverse Compton scattering) by moving electrons. Inverse Compton scattering, in particular, is an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Anderson C. M. Lai , Kenny C. Y. Ng

Compton inverse radiation emitted due to backscattering of laser pulses off the relativistic electrons possesses high spectral density and high energy of photons - in hard x-ray up to gamma-ray energies - because of short wavelength of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Eugene Bulyak , Junji Urakawa

The scattering of temporally shaped intense laser pulses off electrons is discussed by means of manifestly covariant quantum electrodynamics. We employ a framework based on Volkov states with a time dependent laser envelope in light-cone…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-21 D. Seipt , B. Kampfer

For the first time, the production of a massive dark photon (DP) in the $\gamma e^-$ scattering at the future lepton colliders ILC, CLIC, and CEPC is examined. The invisible decay mode of the DP is addressed. We have studied both the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 S. C. İnan , A. V. Kisselev

Motivated by rapid advances in plasma based accelerators, we propose a simple mechanism for the production of highly collimated quasi monochromatic electrons beams. By considering Compton scattering of electrons (in the plasma) with virtual…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 Ravindra Kumar , V. Ravishankar

In the present work, we study the atomic Compton Scattering which could have great impacts on dark matter direct detection experiments. We give a quantitative analysis of the Compton scattering energy spectrum for Si and Ge atomic systems.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Chen-Kai Qiao , Hsin-Chang Chi , Shin-Ted Lin , Peng Gu , Shu-Kui Liu , Chang-Jian Tang

We report a fully differential study of ionization of the Ne L-shell by Compton scattering of 20 keV photons. We find two physical mechanisms which modify the Compton-electron emission. Firstly, we observe scattering of the Compton…

The physics basis for an electron-beam based Compton scattering (ECOS) x-ray source is investigated for single-shot experiments at major high energy density facilities such as the Omega Laser Facility, National Ignition Facility, and Z…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 H. G. Rinderknecht , G. Bruhaug , V. Muşat , G. Gregori , H. Poole , G. W. Collins

A theoretical possibility to determine the proton Compton scattering cross section from the reaction $ep\rightarrow ep\gamma$ is studied in the kinematics with a small transversal momentum transfer in the electron leg. With the exception of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 A. I. Lvov , V. A. Petrunkin , S. G. Popov , B. B. Wojtsekhowski

We review the experimental and theoretical status of elastic electron scattering and elastic low-energy photon scattering (with both real and virtual photons) from the nucleon. As a consequence of new experimental facilities and new…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Charles Earl Hyde-Wright , Kees de Jager

We consider a relativistically moving blob consisting of an isotropic electron distribution that Compton-scatters photons from an external isotropic radiation field. We compute the resulting beaming pattern, i.e. the distribution of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-27 Anne Hutter , Felix Spanier

A detailed analysis of the photon emission spectra of an electron scattered by a laser pulse containing only very few cycles of the carrying electromagnetic field is presented. The analysis is performed in the framework of strong-field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-21 F. Mackenroth , A. Di Piazza

The angular distribution of low-frequency radiation after single scattering by an isotropic distribution of relativistic electrons considerably differs from the Rayleigh angular function. In particular, the scattering by an ensemble of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergei Y. Sazonov , Rashid A. Sunyaev

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…

When gamma-rays emerge from a central source they may undergo Compton scattering in surrounding matter. The resulting Compton-scattered electrons radiate. Coherent radiation by such Compton electrons follows nuclear explosions above the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. I. Katz

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