Abstract
A general method for calculating the polarization of the outgoing photon beam in any reaction is presented. As an example the method is applied to the high-energy photon beam produced in Compton scattering of a laser beam by a high-energy electron beam. The Stokes parameters of the outgoing photon beam, relative to a unit vector normal to the photon momentum and including their dependence on the polarization of incident photon and electron beams, are obtained explicitly. It is expected that this method will be useful, both in photon production reactions and in the subsequent high-energy photon reactions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1320-1328 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1987 |
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