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The 39 pages that link to Compton scattering, each with the reason it gives.

• PhotonRelated: The wavelength shift demonstrates photon momentum in collisions.

• Ionizing radiationRelated: It is a major way energetic photons transfer energy to matter.

• Photoelectric effectCompared with: It also demonstrates photon momentum, but the photon is scattered rather than absorbed to eject an electron.

• Rayleigh scatteringCompared with: It is a photon-energy-changing process, unlike elastic Rayleigh scattering.

• X-rayRelated: This interaction redirects X-rays and reduces their energy in matter.

• Pair productionCompared with: Unlike pair production, it leaves the photon present and does not create a particle–antiparticle pair.

• ScatteringBroader topic: The wavelength shift demonstrates energy and momentum exchange in photon scattering.

• Gamma rayRelated: Gamma rays lose energy through collisions with electrons in detectors and shielding.

• Gamma-ray astronomyRelated: Space-based detectors use gamma-ray interactions, including Compton scattering, to estimate photon energies and arrival directions.

• RadiographyRelated: Scattered photons can reach the detector from unintended directions and degrade image contrast.

• BremsstrahlungCompared with: It begins with an incoming photon, whereas bremsstrahlung emits a photon during particle deflection.

• Elastic scatteringCompared with: The energy transfer makes this process inelastic for the photon-particle system’s internal channel.

• Four-momentumBroader topic: Conservation of four-momentum derives the relation between scattering angle and photon energy.

• Thomson scatteringCompared with: It replaces Thomson scattering when photon recoil and quantum effects cannot be neglected.

• Inverse Compton scatteringCompared with: Inverse Compton scattering reverses the usual energy flow: the electron gives energy to the photon.

• Compton wavelengthRelated: The wavelength shift is proportional to the electron’s Compton wavelength.

• Gamma-ray spectroscopyRelated: It creates a continuum and edge beneath the full-energy peaks.

• Scattering amplitudeBroader topic: The amplitude predicts the photon’s angular and energy distribution.

• Scattering theoryBroader topic: Its wavelength shift demonstrates that light transfers particle-like momentum and energy.

• Scintillation detectorRelated: Gamma rays often deposit only part of their energy through Compton scattering in scintillators.

• Inelastic scatteringBroader topic: It is a canonical example of energy exchange between a photon and an electron.

• Relativistic momentumRelated: Its relativistic momentum accounting explains how photons transfer motion to electrons.

• Photon momentumBroader topic: The wavelength shift records momentum and energy transferred in a photon–electron collision.

• Sin-Itiro TomonagaRelated: Its experimentally measurable rates tested quantum-electrodynamic calculations.

• Optical theoremBroader topic: Quantum electrodynamics applies the theorem to connect forward amplitudes and total photon-scattering rates.

• Arthur ComptonBroader topic: This is the specific interaction whose wavelength shift Compton discovered.

• Energy–momentum relationRelated: The relation helps determine the energies and momenta before and after the collision.

• Max von LaueCompared with: It demonstrated X-rays’ particle behavior, complementing the wave behavior revealed by Laue diffraction.

• Planck relationRelated: The photon’s energy in this process is related to its frequency by hν.

• Relativistic mechanicsRelated: Relativistic energy and momentum conservation determine scattering outcomes at high energies.

• Rutherford scattering experimentsCompared with: It is a distinct scattering phenomenon involving photons rather than alpha particles.

• BKS theoryRelated: Its event-by-event energy and momentum balance challenged BKS’s statistical conservation proposal.

• History of quantum mechanicsRelated: It strengthened the case that light has particle-like properties.

• Radiation (physics)Related: It describes radiation changing direction and energy through interaction with matter.

• Tired lightRelated: Some early tired-light ideas invoked photon interactions with matter as an energy-loss mechanism.

• Charles BarklaCompared with: Its wavelength-shifted radiation contrasts with Barkla’s characteristic secondary X-rays.

• De Broglie equationRelated: Its particle-and-wave account of light helped motivate extending wave properties to matter.

• Gamma-ray techniquesRelated: It is a major way gamma rays deposit energy and can be detected.

• Walther BotheRelated: Bothe and Geiger tested whether scattered X-rays and recoiling electrons appeared in coincidence.