COMPTON SCATTERING CROSS SECTIONS FOR HEAVY ATOMS WITH ACCOUNT OF MANY-ELECTRON CORRELATIONS

Abstract

Compton ionization of krypton and xenon outer and intermediate subshells is investigated. Results are presented covering the energy transferred to the atoms from their ionization thresholds up to 30 Ry and momentum transferred up to 4 a.u. Calculations are performed in the one-electron Hartree–Fock approximation and with many-electron effects taken into account in the random phase approximation with exchange. It is demonstrated that many-electron correlations play an important role not only in dipole but also in monopole and quadrupole transitions, significantly modifying the cross sections as well as leading to new maxima and minima.