Explore: Electron Scattering

Single scattering: when an electron is scattered just once. Plural scattering: when electron(s) scatter several times. Multiple scattering: when electron(s)

Compton scattering (or the Compton effect) is the quantum theory of scattering of a high-frequency photon through an interaction with a charged particle

between light scattering and acoustic scattering in the 1870s. Near the end of the 19th century, the scattering of cathode rays (electron beams) and X-rays

for scattering of x-rays from electrons is of the same order of magnitude as the classical electron radius. On the other hand, electron–electron scattering

processes are scattering from acoustic phonons, impurity scattering, piezoelectric scattering, etc. In acoustic phonon scattering, electrons scatter from state

the incident electrons have sufficiently high energy (>10 keV), the elastic electron scattering becomes the main component of the scattering process and

It occurs due to elastic scattering, when there is no change in the energy of the electrons. The negatively charged electrons are scattered due to Coulomb

is high, the contribution of inelastic electron scattering can be ignored. Deep inelastic scattering of electrons from protons provided the first direct

widespread use of scattering in particle physics to study subatomic matter. Rutherford scattering or Coulomb scattering is the elastic scattering of charged

for electrons, longer wavelengths than hard x-rays). Thomson scattering describes the classical limit of electromagnetic radiation scattering from a