Thomson scattering is the elastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation by a free charged particle, as described by classical electromagnetism. It is...
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Compton scattering (or the Compton effect) is the quantum theory of high frequency photons scattering following an interaction with a charged particle...
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widespread use of scattering in particle physics to study subatomic matter. Rutherford scattering or Coulomb scattering is the elastic scattering of charged...
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Plum pudding model (redirect from Thomson model)
particle scattering showed that Thomson's scattering model could not explain the large angle scattering and it showed that multiple scattering was not...
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Classical electron radius (redirect from Thomson scattering length)
classical electron radius is sometimes known as the Lorentz radius or the Thomson scattering length. It is one of a trio of related scales of length, the other...
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Cosmic microwave background (redirect from Last scattering)
hydrogen. Unlike the plasma, these atoms could not scatter thermal radiation by Thomson scattering, and so the universe became transparent. Known as the...
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Elastic scattering is a form of particle scattering in scattering theory, nuclear physics and particle physics. In this process, the internal states of...
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connection between light scattering and acoustic scattering in the 1870s. Near the end of the 19th century, the scattering of cathode rays (electron...
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X-ray diffraction (section Scattering amplitudes)
Consequently, the coherent scattering detected from an atom can be accurately approximated by analyzing the collective scattering from the electrons in the...
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Thomson problem, Thomson scattering, the elastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation by a free charged particle Thomson Reservoir (disambiguation)...
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Sir Joseph John Thomson OM FRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery...
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Klein–Nishina formula (redirect from Klein-Nishina scattering)
The formula describes both the Thomson scattering of low energy photons (e.g. visible light) and the Compton scattering of high energy photons (e.g. x-rays...
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undergo scattering that may be either coherent or incoherent. The interference effects in coherent scattering can be computed via the coherent scattering length...
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lasers provided a new solution through a British discovery known as Thomson scattering. Lasers have extremely accurate and stable frequency control, and...
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Plasma diagnostics (section Thomson scattering)
careful absolute calibration is required. Although Thomson scattering is dominated by scattering from electrons, since the electrons interact with the...
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for the electron beam ion trap. Her doctoral research considered Thomson scattering from shocked compressed matter. She became a postdoctoral researcher...
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Madison Symmetric Torus (section Thomson scattering)
electromagnetic wave. This scattering of a photon by an electron is called Thomson Scattering. How is Thomson Scattering useful to plasma physicists...
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electron scattering occurs at all and the beam passes straight through. Single scattering: when an electron is scattered just once. Plural scattering: when...
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California, San Diego, primarily researching nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering. She served on the committees that investigated the loss of Challenger...
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Retrieved 2021-11-18. Patel, Adam (2021). "Thomson and collisional regimes of in-phase coherent microwave scattering off gaseous microplasmas". Scientific...
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confirmed by a visiting team from the Culham Laboratory using the Thomson scattering technique. Since then, tokamaks became the dominant line of research...
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laser to directly measure the temperature of the bulk electrons using Thomson scattering. This technique was well known and respected in the fusion community;...
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scattering amplitude is the probability amplitude of the outgoing spherical wave relative to the incoming plane wave in a stationary-state scattering...
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interaction between the light and free electrons is called Thomson scattering or linear Thomson scattering. The relative strength of the electromagnetic interaction...
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Different types of scattering are used for different lidar applications: most commonly Rayleigh scattering, Mie scattering, Raman scattering, and fluorescence...
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inverse Compton scattering (NICS), also known as non-linear Compton scattering and multiphoton Compton scattering, is the scattering of multiple low-energy...
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determine the local plasma density, potential and temperature. Thomson scattering: "Light scatters" from plasma can be used to reconstruct plasma behavior,...
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plasma was effectively opaque to electromagnetic radiation due to Thomson scattering by free electrons, as the mean free path each photon could travel...
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process, Compton scattering, may occur. Above twice this energy, at 1.022 MeV, pair production is also more likely. Compton scattering and pair production...
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The separation of light into colors by a prism Triboluminescence Thomson scattering Total internal reflection Twisted light Umov effect Zeeman effect...
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