TY - JOUR
T1 - Compton interaction of a photon gas with a plasma
AU - Woodward, Paul
PY - 1970/1/1
Y1 - 1970/1/1
N2 - The rate of energy transfer due to Compton collisions from a photon gas to a Maxwell electron gas is calculated to fourth order in the expansion parameters kTemc2 and kTRmc2. The photon distribution is taken to be Planckian at a temperature TR not equal to the electron temperature Te. It is found that the nonrelativistic expression is accurate only for kTR≤2.5 keV and kTe≤20 keV, while the fourth-order expression is accurate for kTR≤10 keV and kTe≤80 keV.
AB - The rate of energy transfer due to Compton collisions from a photon gas to a Maxwell electron gas is calculated to fourth order in the expansion parameters kTemc2 and kTRmc2. The photon distribution is taken to be Planckian at a temperature TR not equal to the electron temperature Te. It is found that the nonrelativistic expression is accurate only for kTR≤2.5 keV and kTe≤20 keV, while the fourth-order expression is accurate for kTR≤10 keV and kTe≤80 keV.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.1.2731
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.1.2731
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0007334184
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 1
SP - 2731
EP - 2734
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 10
ER -