Accession Number:

AD0466373

Title:

X-Ray Transport - 2. (Bound Electron Scattering)

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

KAMAN NUCLEAR COLORADO SPRINGS CO

Personal Author(s):

• Donaldson, Marvin E.
• Henry, E. M.
• Veigele, William J.

Report Date:

1965-03-30

Pagination or Media Count:

25.0

Abstract:

The phenomenology of generic Compton scattering, including free and bound electrons, is discussed in terms of the atomic form factor and incoherent scattering function. Using Thomas-Fermi data for these functions, average and differential collision cross sections have been calculated for air for incident photon energies from 0.01 to 1000 kev. An electron binding factor a sigma is defined, which, when multiplied into Klein-Nishina free electron collision cross sections, introduces the effect of electron binding.

Descriptors:

• *INCOHERENT SCATTERING
• *X RAYS
• AIR
• COHERENT SCATTERING
• COMPTON SCATTERING
• DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTIONS
• ELECTRON SCATTERING
• ELECTRONS
• KLEIN NISHINA FORMULA
• NUCLEAR BINDING ENERGY
• PHOTONS

Subject Categories:

• Nuclear Physics and Elementary Particle Physics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE