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jordan41590
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Ok I'm doing some gamma ray spectroscopy and finding that the two main effects occurring are Photoelectric and Compton. I want to fully hash out similarities and differences for these two effects so I know exactly what's going on. As a starting point, I know that in the photoelectric effect the photon's energy is fully absorbed, ejecting an electron and ultimately emitting a new photon when another electron drops down, whereas with compton the first photon scatters. But is the main difference the amount of energy lost by the photon, or is there a more fundamental difference?