TY - JOUR
T1 - Studying the effect of Polarisation in Compton scattering in the undergraduate laboratory
AU - Nikolopoulos, Konstantinos
AU - Tungate, Garry
AU - Knights, Patrick
PY - 2018/2/9
Y1 - 2018/2/9
N2 - An experiment for the advanced undergraduate laboratory allowing students to directly observe the effect of photon polarisation on Compton scattering is described. An initially unpolarised beam of photons is polarised via Compton scattering and analysed through a subsequent scattering. The experiment is designed to use equipment typically available at an undergraduate physics laboratory. The experimental results are compared with a Geant4 simulation and geometry effects are discussed.
AB - An experiment for the advanced undergraduate laboratory allowing students to directly observe the effect of photon polarisation on Compton scattering is described. An initially unpolarised beam of photons is polarised via Compton scattering and analysed through a subsequent scattering. The experiment is designed to use equipment typically available at an undergraduate physics laboratory. The experimental results are compared with a Geant4 simulation and geometry effects are discussed.
UR - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.06510.pdf
U2 - 10.1088/1361-6404/aa9c98
DO - 10.1088/1361-6404/aa9c98
M3 - Article
SN - 0143-0807
VL - 39
JO - European Journal of Physics
JF - European Journal of Physics
IS - 2
M1 - 025203
ER -