Photoelectric vs Compton effect | Visual Explanation

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[@AladdinAl-Asady]

Nice video! I would like to point out some points: The probability of Coherent Scatter proportional with (Z / E^2), while the probability of Photoelectric Effect proportional with (Z^3/ E^3). There is a big difference between them !!! It is worth noting that although the Compton Effect is dominant in the medium energies range (almust 1 to 7 MV ), but its probability decreases with increasing photon energy and at the same time it is independent of atomic number Z . In other words, the probability of the Compton effect is dependent on the number of electrons per gram in the absorbing material, which for most elements is approximately the same!

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[@adriangheorghe2327]

Then how do you explain the appearance of photons with a lower frequency range than the incident photons, scattered in the case of the Compton effect?

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[@adriangheorghe2327]

In the case of the Compton Effect, the high-energy gamma photon that enters the atom contracts longitudinally 137 times and transversely 4 times and splits into two high-energy bipolar standing waves, one rotating around the nucleus and the other around the electron in the deep layer. In this way, gamma photons of lower frequency and energy than the incident gamma photon would be born. Stationary waves, of high amplitude, behave like an elementary charge in the spiral. When the standing wave breaks, through electro-magnetic induction, a high-power electric impulse would appear, which accelerates the electron in the immediate vicinity and transmits a recoil to the nucleus, which releases the photon from the circum-nuclear standing wave.

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