Can a photon with energy greater than energy level difference of atom.

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Can a photon with energy greater than energy level difference of atom be absorbed by atom?Is there any case in that photon share a part of energy for atom and keep other part of energy for itself?
 

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Are you familiar with Compton scattering? Google for “Compton bound electron”
 
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But when the wave leng of photon not short as X-ray then what does it happen?
 
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But when the wave leng of photon not short as X-ray then what does it happen?
Then you cannot make the simplifying assumption that the binding energy is small compared with the photon energy, and the math gets more complicated. That’s why I suggested that you include the word “bound” in the search - that will find some papers that cover this complication.
 

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