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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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.