The electron binding energy effect on Compton scattering of X rays

Abstract

In a series of papers on the measurements of the intensity of Compton scattering of X rays from crystalline samples as a function of scattering angle, this author has discovered a new effect. He has found that at the scattering angle for which the energy transfer between the scattered photon and the recoil electron is equal to the binding energy of an outer electron of the atoms in the sample, the intensity of Compton scattering shows a minimum. This effect is again detected in the present work in the case of a chromium single crystal and an interpretation of the effect is given on the basis of the theoretical work of Roulet and Nozières on the collective effects in the atoms.