Thomson and Compton scattering with an intense laser pulse

Our paper concerns the scattering of intense laser radiation on free electrons and it is focused on the relation between nonlinear Compton and nonlinear Thomson scattering. The analysis is performed for a laser field modeled by an ideal pulse with a finite duration, a fixed direction of propagation and indefinitely extended in the plane perpendicular to it. We derive the classical limit of the quantum spectral and angular distribution of the emitted radiation, for an arbitrary polarization of the laser pulse. We also rederive our result directly, in the framework of classical electrodynamics, obtaining, at the same time, the distribution for the emitted radiation with a well defined polarization. The results reduce to those established by Krafft et al. [Phys. Rev. E 72, 056502 (2005)] in the particular case of linear polarization of the pulse, orthogonal to the initial electron momentum. Conditions in which the differences between classical and quantum results are visible are discussed and illustrated by graphs.     

Investigating neutron polarizabilities through Compton scattering on 3He

We examine manifestations of neutron electromagnetic polarizabilities in coherent Compton scattering from the helium-3 nucleus. We calculate gamma3He elastic scattering observables using chiral perturbation theory to next-to-leading order [O(e2Q)]. We find that the unpolarized differential cross section can be used to measure neutron electric and magnetic polarizabilities, while two double-polarization observables are sensitive to different linear combinations of the four neutron spin polarizabilities.     

Compton散射对短脉冲强激光在次临界等离子体中自聚焦的影响

应用相对论理论和多光子非线性Compton散射模型,研究了Compton散射对短脉冲强激光在次临界等离子体中自聚焦的影响,提出了将入射光和Compton散射光作为形成激光自聚焦的新机制,给出了三级电流密度满足的修正方程,并进行了数值模拟。结果表明,相对论效应使等离子体中的短脉冲强激光自聚焦趋势减缓,而散射则加速了自聚焦的发展,总自聚焦趋势比无相对论时来得快一些,主要原因是由于散射光和入射光形成的耦合光频率较入射光频率增大,散射效应补偿了因相对论效应引起的自聚焦减缓效应的缘故。     

A multiphoton treatment of near resonant light scattering in intense fields

The scattering by a two-state atom of monochromatic light of arbitrary intensity and detuning, is treated by solving Schrödinger's equation directly for the state of the scattered field. The calculation is performed in a basis of dressed atom states, which include to all orders the coupling of the incident field to the atom. Amplitudes describing sequences of scattering events are found by a nonperturbative method. A scattered intensity spectrum, directly related to the rate of change of energy in any given scattered field mode, is constructed in terms of bilinear products of the amplitudes representing all possible sequences of photon emission, and in the steady state limit the spectrum is found to be identical to the widely quoted results of Mollow. A discussion is devoted to understanding in physical terms the various quantities appearing in the expression for the intensity spectrum.     

Compton散射对短脉冲强激光在次临界等离子体中自聚焦的影响

应用相对论理论和多光子非线性Compton散射模型,研究了Compton散射对短脉冲强激光在次临界等离子体中自聚焦的影响,提出了将入射光和Compton散射光作为形成激光自聚焦的新机制,给出了三级电流密度满足的修正方程,并进行了数值模拟。结果表明,相对论效应使等离子体中的短脉冲强激光自聚焦趋势减缓,而散射则加速了自聚焦的发展,总自聚焦趋势比无相对论时来得快一些,主要原因是由于散射光和入射光形成的耦合光频率较入射光频率增大,散射效应补偿了因相对论效应引起的自聚焦减缓效应的缘故。     

Compton scattering opacity

We show first that there is an error in the literature in the evaluation of the Compton scattering opacity; second, we compare the corrected values with the published ones and, third, we show that two commonly made approximations are inaccurate in the case of electron degeneracy.     

Pion Compton scattering in perturbative QCD

Pion Campton scattering is studied in perturbative QCD for real and space-like initial photons. Different methods for the convolution of the hard amplitude with the pion wave-functions, which have in the past led to conflicting results, are compared.     

Compton scattering in ignited thermonuclear plasmas

Inertially confined, ignited thermonuclear D-T plasmas will produce intense blackbody radiation at temperatures T greater, similar20 keV; it is shown that the injection of GeV electrons into the burning core can efficiently generate high-energy Compton scattering photons. Moreover, the spectrum scattered in a small solid angle can be remarkably monochromatic, due to kinematic pileup; a peak brightness in excess of 10;{30} photons/(mm(2) mrad(2) s 0.1% bandwidth) is predicted. These results are discussed within the context of the Schwinger field and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect.     

Compton scattering of photons from standing wave fields in the Bragg case of X-ray diffraction

Within the limits of the impulse approximation the double differential cross section for inelastic X-ray scattering of photons from standing wave fields in the Bragg case of diffraction can provide information about projections of non-diagonal elements of the one-particle density matrix in momentum space on definite crystal directions.     

Photon-electron correlations in double Compton scattering

The exact matrix element for the production of two circularly polarised photons in a double Compton scattering when the initial photon is also circularly polarised is calculated. The differential cross-sections for the various photon-electron polarisation correlations are obtained for high energy photons (i.e.) taking only near forward emission of photons. It is found that irrespective of the spin of the initial electron, the cross-section for either right or left circular polarisation of all three photons is zero under this approximation.     

Isospin breaking in pion Compton scattering

Using chiral perturbation theory we calculate for pion Compton scattering the isospin-breaking effects induced by the difference between the charged and neutral pion mass. At one-loop order this correction is directly proportional to mp±2-mp02\ensuremath{m_{\pi^\pm}^2-m_{\pi^0}^2} and free of (electromagnetic) counterterm contributions. The differential cross-section for charged pion Compton scattering p-g? p-g\ensuremath{\pi^-\gamma \rightarrow \pi^-\gamma} gets affected (in backward directions) at the level of a few permille. At the same time the isospin-breaking correction leads to a small shift of the pion polarizabilities by d(ap- bp) @ 1.3 ·10-5\ensuremath{\delta(\alpha_\pi- \beta_\pi) \simeq 1.3 \cdot 10^{-5}} fm^3. In case of the low-energy gg? p0p0\ensuremath{\gamma\gamma \rightarrow \pi^0\pi^0} reaction isospin breaking manifests itself through a cusp effect at the p+p-\ensuremath{\pi^+\pi^-} threshold. We give an improved estimate for it based on the empirical p \pi p \pi -scattering length difference a0-a2\ensuremath{a_0-a_2} .     

Compton scattering from isotropic electrons

The exact Compton cross section for scattering of photons from isotropic monoenergetic electrons is given in analytical form. It is shown that the moments of the Legendre expansion of the scattering kernel can be obtained analytically, apart from an integration over the unknown electron distribution function.     

康普顿散射中反冲电子方向的正确画法

指出了某些教材中康普顿散射示意图画法的不妥之处,并严格推导了康普顿散射中反冲电子的散射角,给出了正确的康普顿散射示意图.     

Aspects of nucleon Compton scattering

We consider the spin-averaged nucleon forward Compton scattering amplitude in heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory including all terms to order . The chiral prediction for the spin-averaged forward Compton scattering amplitude is in good agreement with the data for photon energies110 MeV. We also evaluate the nucleon electric and magnetic Compton polarizabilities to this order and discuss the uncertainties of the various counter terms entering the chiral expansion of these quantities.