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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Loosely bound electrons (Compton)

1.4 PHOTON INTERACTIONS
1.4.1 Types of indirectly ionizing photon irradiations
􀀁 A loosely bound electron is an electron whose binding
energy to the nucleus is small compared to the
photon energy
􀀁 An interaction between a photon and a loosely bound
electron is considered to be an interaction between a
photon and a free (unbound) electron.

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