Thomson scattering revisited

Authors

  • R. Cuevas
  • A. Queijeiro

Keywords:

Scattering, photons, particle spin

Abstract

We review Thomson scattering, as the low energy limit of Compton scattering, for target particles of spin 0, {\small 1/2}, 1, and {\small 3/2 }. We show how, at the scattering amplitude level, Thomson result emerges; then, the computation of the cross section is quite simple.

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Published

2002-01-01

How to Cite

[1]
R. Cuevas and A. Queijeiro, “Thomson scattering revisited”, Rev. Mex. Fís., vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 271–0, Jan. 2002.