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Is the Compton scattering angle related to the incident energy?
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[QUOTE="jtbell, post: 5894210, member: 20524"] For a given incoming photon energy, the outgoing photon can emerge at different angles, with correspondingly different energies. The familiar formula for the scattering angle doesn't give any information about which angle is most likely. To get the probability distribution for the scattering angle, you need to use the differential cross section for Compton scattering, a.k.a. the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein%E2%80%93Nishina_formula']Klein-Nishina formula[/URL]. The scattering-angle formula is purely kinematic, and comes from energy and momentum conservation. The Klein-Nishina formula comes from quantum electrodynamics. [/QUOTE]
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