Thermal Compton Scattering of Electron Beams on Blackbody Photons: A Monte Carlo Event Generator for Multi-Turn Tracking at the Electron-Ion Collider
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Compton scattering of ultra-relativistic electrons on thermal (blackbody) photons is typically a subdominant process in electron storage rings, but at sufficiently high electron energy and low residual gas pressure it can become competitive with beam-gas scattering and contribute to dis tributed losses and backgrounds. We present a self-contained Monte Carlo event generator for thermal Compton scattering designed for integration into multi-turn tracking workflows. The im plementation follows H. Burkhardt’s proposal method: trial scattering angles are sampled from the Thomson differential cross section and accepted/rejected using the Klein-Nishina to Thomson ratio, yielding the correct Compton spectrum while retaining simple absolute-rate normalization. Ther mal photon energies are sampled from the blackbody photon-number spectrum via an exact mixture representation.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0012704;
- OSTI ID:
- 3021706
- Report Number(s):
- BNL--229489-2026-TECH
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
ON THE SPECTRAL SHAPE OF RADIATION DUE TO INVERSE COMPTON SCATTERING CLOSE TO THE MAXIMUM CUTOFF
Comptonization of X-rays by low-temperature electrons
Astrophysical gamma-ray production by inverse compton interactions of relativistic electrons
Journal Article
·
Tue Jul 10 00:00:00 EDT 2012
· Astrophysical Journal
·
OSTI ID:22039362
Comptonization of X-rays by low-temperature electrons
Journal Article
·
Wed Feb 14 23:00:00 EST 1979
· Astrophys. J.; (United States)
·
OSTI ID:6094327
Astrophysical gamma-ray production by inverse compton interactions of relativistic electrons
Journal Article
·
Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1979
· Astrophys. J.; (United States)
·
OSTI ID:5631444