Compton Effect

Name:
Compton Effect
Detailed information:
One of the principal processes by which high-energy electromagnetic radiation (γ-rays) interacts with or is absorbed by matter. In the Compton process the γ-ray frees an electron in matter as if the electron were unbound, dividing the momentum of the γ-ray between the ejected electron and a new γ-ray of lower energy going off in a new direction.