• The Compton wavelength is a quantum mechanical property of a particle, defined as the wavelength of a photon whose energy is the same as the rest energy...
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    in the energy of the photon (and thus, an increase in its wavelength.) This is the Compton effect. Because of conservation of energy the lost energy from...
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    the Compton wavelength of the electron; it is equal to 2.43×10−12 m. The wavelength shift λ′ − λ lies between zero (for θ = 0°) and twice the Compton wavelength...
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    School of Physics "Enrico Fermi". pp. 142–143. ISBN 9781586031671. "Compton wavelength over 2 pi". The NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty...
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  • 2000 Compton Limestone, a geologic unit in Missouri Compton scattering, an effect observed when photons interact with electrons Compton wavelength, a quantum...
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  • of our theory.": 8  (This frequency is also known as Compton frequency.) To find the wavelength equivalent to a moving body, de Broglie: 214  set the...
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    equivalently, if the wavelength of the light is much greater than the Compton wavelength of the particle (e.g., for electrons, longer wavelengths than hard x-rays)...
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  • measured with high precision through a very precise measurement of its Compton wavelength. This is then combined with the value of the Rydberg constant to extract...
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  • two being the Bohr radius a 0 {\displaystyle a_{0}} and the reduced Compton wavelength of the electron ƛe. Any one of these three length scales can be written...
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  • Schwarzschild radius ( 2 G M / c 2 {\displaystyle 2GM/c^{2}} ) and the Compton wavelength ( 2 π ℏ / M c {\displaystyle 2\pi \hbar /Mc} ) corresponding to a...
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  • is the Compton wavelength of the electron, f C = m e c 2 / h {\displaystyle f_{\text{C}}=m_{\text{e}}c^{2}/h} is the Compton frequency of the...
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  • yielded a new upper bound on the mass of gravitons. The graviton's Compton wavelength is at least 1.6×1016 m, or about 1.6 light-years, corresponding to...
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  • the order of ≈ 10 − 22 {\displaystyle \approx 10^{-22}} eV; so a Compton wavelength on the order of 1 light year. Fuzzy cold dark matter halos in dwarf...
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    where λ c = h / m e c {\displaystyle \lambda _{c}=h/m_{e}c} is the Compton wavelength of the electron (~2.42 pm). Notice that the scatter ratio λ ′ / λ...
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  • motivated in various ways, such as considering a particle whose reduced Compton wavelength is comparable to its Schwarzschild radius, though whether those concepts...
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  • this length ra is on the order of the electron's Compton wavelength. Unlike the Compton wavelength, it is not quantum-mechanical in nature. More recently...
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    1923 Arthur Holly Compton showed that the wavelength shift seen when low intensity X-rays scattered from electrons (so called Compton scattering) could...
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    known as the Compton wavelength, but is in fact a proportionality constant for the wavelength shift. The collision causes the photon wavelength to increase...
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    the full range of electromagnetic radiation, organized by frequency or wavelength. The spectrum is divided into separate bands, with different names for...
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    Mukhopadhyay, P. (1986). "A correlation between the compton wavelength and the de Broglie wavelength". Physics Letters A. 114 (4): 179–182. Bibcode:1986PhLA...
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    position of a particle is larger than its Compton wavelength (a particle with mass 10−22 eV has a Compton wavelength of 1.3 light years), and for some reasonable...
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  • trio of related units of length, the other two being the reduced Compton wavelength of the electron ( λ e / 2 π {\displaystyle \lambda _{\mathrm {e} }/2\pi...
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    amount called the Compton shift. The maximum magnitude of this wavelength shift is h/mec, which is known as the Compton wavelength. For an electron, it...
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  • time, and an oscillation term with an amplitude equal to the reduced Compton wavelength. That oscillation term is the so-called zitterbewegung. In quantum...
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    99×1030 kg) the mass of a particle, as identified with its inverse Compton wavelength (1 cm−1 ≘ 3.52×10−41 kg) the mass of a star or black hole, as identified...
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  • .} This is a direct consequence of the Planck–Einstein relation. Compton wavelength French & Taylor (1978), pp. 24, 55. Cohen-Tannoudji, Diu & Laloë (1973/1977)...
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  • observations. Observations of gravitational waves have constrained the Compton wavelength of the graviton to be λg > 1.6×1016 m, which can be interpreted as...
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    / ( m e c ) {\displaystyle \hbar /(m_{\text{e}}c)} is the reduced Compton wavelength of the electron. Renormalization: The total effective mass of a spherical...
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  • masses of the electron and the deuteron respectively while λC is the Compton wavelength of the electron. For the proton, the two radii are the same. The first...
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  • transmitted by a light scalar field (i.e. a scalar field with a long Compton wavelength, which determines the range). This has prompted a much recent interest...
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