Relativistic Compton Wavelength



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Submitted Jun 28, 2022
Published Jul 26, 2022
10.24018/ejphysics.2022.4.4.190

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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.

Keywords: Compton scattering; Compton wavelength; moving electron

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