Eur. Phys. J. D 41, 205-210 (2007)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2006-00208-x

Laser polarization effects on K-shell Compton scattering

Department of Physics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest-Magurele, 077125, Romania

Corresponding author: ^a flor@barutu.fizica.unibuc.ro

Received: 10 April 2006
Revised: 3 August 2006
Published online: 15 September 2006

Abstract

We study Compton scattering on the ground state of the hydrogen atom in the presence of an intense low-frequency electric field (the laser) of arbitrary polarization, for incident and scattered photons of energies around 15 keV. The adopted formalism is the nonrelativistic one developed by Voitkiv et al. [J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 36, 1907 (2003)] and applied by them for a circularly polarized laser. We explore the spectrum and the electron energy distribution in their dependence on the incident photon energy or electric field intensity, for different polarizations.