THE CROSS-SECTION FOR MAGNETIC COMPTON-SCATTERING UP TO 1 MEV

Authors
MCCARTHY JE COOPER MJ HONKIMAKI V TSCHENTSCHER T SUORTTI P GARDELIS S HAMALAINEN K MANNINEN SO TIMMS DN
Citation
Je. Mccarthy et al., THE CROSS-SECTION FOR MAGNETIC COMPTON-SCATTERING UP TO 1 MEV, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 401(2-3), 1997, pp. 463-475
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
401
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
463 - 475
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1997)401:2-3<463:TCFMCU>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
The energy dependence of the magnetic Compton cross-section was measur ed with elliptically polarised synchrotron radiation at five energies from 245.2 to 1000.5 keV at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facilit y (ESRF) using a recently installed superconducting wavelength shifter , the sample was ferromagnetic iron. These measurements more than doub le the highest photon energy previously used in synchrotron radiation studies. It was found that the integrated intensity of the spin-depend ent scattering was well described by the formula-for the differential cross-section, d sigma/d Omega, for free, stationary electrons. The op timisation of experiments designed to yield the spin-dependent Compton profile from the double differential cross-section, d(2) sigma/d Omeg a d omega do is discussed.