Eric,
Lots of good, but very difficult questions.
I am trying to understand how Compton scattering formulas change when
dressed electrons are involved. I do not think the standard derivations
work for electrons in e-m fields - whether bound or not. Even fields in
dc currents probably cannot be
Lou,
Interesting paper. The conditions explored in the paper, if I've
understood them, are the Compton scattering of high energy photons on
hydrogen atoms in the midst of a low energy laser field. The energy of the
laser field is significantly below that of a typical transition frequency
of the
Eric,
It appears that the photon-stopping power of electrons which are "dressed"
in electromagnetic fields may be much greater than that of bare electrons
- i.e., "dressed" electrons that are exchanging large numbers of virtual
photons with nearby nuclei and other electrons in magnetic and coulomb
The quantum mechanical mechanism which supports this gamma suppression is
entanglement.
Entanglement was introduced into QM to explain how two particles that had
sprung from the same original, meaning identical systems, that is to say
“cloned off from the same particle” would behave.
http://en.wi
Interesting find Eric,
If quenching gammas with gammas (pair production) is possible at lower
energy – even at the expense of a lower cross-section rate which makes it
not useful for real-world shielding– then perhaps all the money which we
thought was wasted on the Tokomak and ITER etc can be put
I'm learning more and more how different the worlds of quantum mechanics
and high energy physics are from that of everyday experience.
There's been an ongoing discussion about the viability of "active gamma
suppression," or the quenching of gammas, during a LENR reaction. This is
an interesting q
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