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Relativistic Compton Wavelength

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  • Espen Gaarder Haug

    (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway)

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In 1923, Arthur Holly Compton introduced what today is known as the Compton wavelength. Even if the Compton scattering derivation by Compton is relativistic in the sense that it takes into account the momentum of photons traveling at the speed of light, the original Compton derivation indirectly assumes that the electron is stationary at the moment it is scattered by electrons, but not after it has been hit by photons. Here, we extend this to derive Compton scattering for the case when the electron is initially moving at a velocity v.

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Handle: RePEc:epw:physic:v:4:y:2022:i:4:id:11190
DOI: 10.24018/ejphysics.2022.4.4.190
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