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What equipment Compton used to measure the wavelength shift in your experiment ? Some links talk about the use of bragg spectrometer others about the use of ionization chambers.


In this link have some illustrations of spectras resultants of Compton experiments

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1085639&blobtype=pdf

The peak of unmodified rays, its caused by the interactions with electron close to the nucleus?
 
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He used a cloud chamber - see pp 187, 188 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1927/compton-lecture.pdf
 
thanks for the link.

The target for the primary X-rays ("scattering target") process is localized in the center of the chamber? Compton used the angle of recoiling electron to measure the angle of secondary ray, using this relation [tex]\cot\frac{1}{2}\delta=\tan\theta[/tex] ?

The shown image in the nobel lecture is a
it is a simplification of this image?

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/compdat.html#c1
 
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