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Hi,
Can someone point me to a treatment of the preferential direction of emission of a photoelectron in the case of polarized incident light ?
I think that there is a relationship a la cos^2 theta between the plane of polarization of the light (E-field) and the probability of emission of the photoelectron, but I'd like to know where it comes from and if it is related to the atom doing the emission or not.
I think I know how to work out the (if I'm not mistaking, opposite) relationship in the Compton effect when we can consider the electron to be free (this is treated in Peskin and Schroeder), but I don't know how to do it for the photo-electric effect.
thanks and cheers,
Patrick.
Can someone point me to a treatment of the preferential direction of emission of a photoelectron in the case of polarized incident light ?
I think that there is a relationship a la cos^2 theta between the plane of polarization of the light (E-field) and the probability of emission of the photoelectron, but I'd like to know where it comes from and if it is related to the atom doing the emission or not.
I think I know how to work out the (if I'm not mistaking, opposite) relationship in the Compton effect when we can consider the electron to be free (this is treated in Peskin and Schroeder), but I don't know how to do it for the photo-electric effect.
thanks and cheers,
Patrick.