Thomson scattering revisited

Revista Mexicana de Fisica

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 271-276

  Cuevas, R ^a   Queijeiro, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Particle spin; Photons; Scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036331542     PISSN: 0035001X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. For a historical account of the discovery of Compton effect see: R. H. Stuewer and M. J. Cooper in Compton Scattering, edited by B. Williams (McGraw-Hill, 1977).
2. A few of them are J. D. Bjorken and S. D. Drell, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics (McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964) pp. 127-132, and 193-195; M. D. Scadron, Advanced Quantum Theory and its Applications Through Feynman Diagrams (Springer Verlag, 1979) pp. 55-71, 199-201. A non-relativistic quantum treatment, in the dipolar approximation, can be found in J. Sakurai, Advanced Quantum Mechanics (Addison Wesley, 1967) pp. 36-53.
3. A few of them are J. D. Bjorken and S. D. Drell, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics (McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964) pp. 127-132, and 193-195; M. D. Scadron, Advanced Quantum Theory and its Applications Through Feynman Diagrams (Springer Verlag, 1979) pp. 55-71, 199-201. A non-relativistic quantum treatment, in the dipolar approximation, can be found in J. Sakurai, Advanced Quantum Mechanics (Addison Wesley, 1967) pp. 36-53.
4. A few of them are J. D. Bjorken and S. D. Drell, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics (McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964) pp. 127-132, and 193-195; M. D. Scadron, Advanced Quantum Theory and its Applications Through Feynman Diagrams (Springer Verlag, 1979) pp. 55-71, 199-201. A non-relativistic quantum treatment, in the dipolar approximation, can be found in J. Sakurai, Advanced Quantum Mechanics (Addison Wesley, 1967) pp. 36-53.
5. J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics (Wiley, New York, 1975) pp. 679-683.
6. See for example the Appendix B in Bjorken-Drell's book.
7. Compton scattering of spin-one particles was considered by Wu-Ki Tung, Phys. Rev. 176 (1968) 2127.
8. Compton scattering of spin-3/2 particles was considered by Ion Mathews, Phys. Rev. 102 (1956) 270, although no discussion of the contact transformations is done.
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