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Thanks for the replies. I was actually thinking of a very low energy photon interacting with an atom, so there's probably no pair production or nuclear interactions... I was also thinking that since the photon is of low energy, there shouldn't be any atomic excitation. However, I was...

I've been wondering, if a photon is very far off any atomic resonances, can it still be absorbed by the atom? or will there be compton scattering? or will the photon pass through the atom? or is there something else I'm not considering... Thanks.