>>12944501Okay so Compton scattering is actually really simple. You’ll notice in my first post I said:
>The perturbation goes in all directions, but are maximum at planes normal to vectors orthogonal to the axis of accelerationIn Compton scattering, electron energy difference is based on mostly the angle of incident photons, the difference basically a trig of the angle times the electron energy (h/mc of electron).
In photon ejection, its always perfect to the Compton wavelength of the electron since its orthogonal and 1-cos(0) = 0, so no loss in energy (no delta wavelength).
But incident collision can come from all angles, at near 180 deg, obv very little energy transfer.
But the real kicker is when photons hit electrons that aren’t free, and energy increase can’t release it from a nucleus, in which case delta wavelength becomes a Compton wavelength of the entire atom and nucleus versus an electron, very little difference in “scattering on wavelength” x 1/22k, but also now energy just gets converted to kinetic energy of the atom as heat.
Photon transfers energy to the electron, but enough to free it. In that case the photon scatters and atom may move 90 deg to its vector a little (heat).
Compton scattering isn’t loss of conservation of total energy, it’s just transfer to kinetic when there isn’t enough to knock an electron a whole modulus off it’s electron bond energy well (who’s integral in the Lie group is larger than 1-cos(x) of the incident photon energy)
I still don’t think that’s “evidence for photons being particles” though. That’s just a lazy explanation imo
