Relativistic Compton Energy Exchange
- 15 May 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 1 (10) , 2734-2737
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.1.2734
Abstract
A relativistically accurate table of values is calculated for the Compton energy exchange rate between photons in a Planckian distribution at temperature varying from 5 to 50 keV and electrons in a non-degenerate Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution at temperatures varying from 0 to 100 keV.
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