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POSSIBLE EXPERIMENTS ON WAVE FUNCTION LOCALIZATION DUE TO COMPTON SCATTERING.

V. Danilov, A. F. Aleksandrov, J. Galambos, Timofey Gorlov, Y. Liu, A. Shishlo, Sergei Nagaitsev

Published Sep 25, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

The reduction of a particle's wave function in the process of radiation or light scattering is a longstanding problem.Its solution will give a clue on processes that form, for example, wave functions of electrons constantly emitting synchrotron radiation quanta in storage rings.On a more global scale, it may shed light on wave function collapse due to the process of measurement.In this paper we consider various experimental options using Fermilab electron beams and a possible electron beam from the SNS linac and lasers to detect electron wave function change due to Compton scattering.

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The reduction of a particle's wave function in the process of radiation or light scattering is a longstanding problem.Its solution will give a clue on processes that form, for example, wave functions of electrons constantly emitting synchrotron radiation quanta in storage rings.On a more global scale, it may shed light on wave function collapse due to the process of measurement.In this paper we consider various experimental options using Fermilab electron beams and a possible electron beam from the SNS linac and lasers to detect electron wave function change due to Compton scattering.
The Compton effect is commonly cited as a demonstration of the particle feature of light, while the wave nature of matter has been proposed by de Broglie and demonstrated by Davisson and Germer with the Bragg diffraction of electron beams. In this investigation, we present an entirely different interpretation of the Compton effect based on the postulates of de Broglie and on an interaction between electromagnetic and matter waves. The speeds of interacting electrons in the Compton scattering are quite fast and its mechanism relies heavily on the mass variation. Thus, based on this wave interpretation, the Compton effect can be viewed as a further demonstration of the postulates of de Broglie for high-speed particles. In addition to the scattered wave, a direct radiation depending on the mass variation is predicted, which provides a means to test the wave interpretation.
In this work we consider a possibility that Compton scattering can be considered as a typical measurement (detection) procedure within which electron behaves as the measuring apparatus, i.e. detector (pointer) of the propagation of the photon as the measured object. It represents a realistic variant of the old gendanken (though) experiment (discussed by Einstein, Bohr, Dirac, Feynman) of the interaction between the single photon as the measured object and a movable mirror as the measuring apparatus, i.e. detector (pointer). Here collapse by measurement is successfully modeled by spontaneous (non-dynamical) unitary symmetry (superposition) breaking (effective hiding) representing an especial case of the spontaneous (non-dynamical) breaking (effective hiding) of the dynamical symmetries. All this is full agreement with all existing experimental data and represents the definitive solution of the old problem of micro theoretical foundation of measurement or old problem of the foundation of quantum mechanics as a local (luminal) physical theory.
Chapter I The origins of quantum physics I The Compton effect — a strange dichotomy in the nature of electromagnetic radiation In a series of experiments conducted between 1919 and 1923, Arthur Holly Compton (Figure 1.1) investigated the scattering of monochromatic (single-wavelength) X-rays from graphite targets. He found that the radiation scattered at an angle 0 to the incident beam contained, in addition to radiation of the same wavelength as the incident radiation, a second component with a considerably longer wavelength. The existence of this second component in the scattered radiation could not be explained by the well-established theory of the scattering of electromagnetic waves by electrons. Compton considered instead the process illustrated in Figure 1.2, in which a particle of electromagnetic radiation, collides with a slow moving electron, which then recoils absorbing some of the X-ray particle’s energy. Treating the process as a collision between particles, and using only the (relativistic) conservation laws of energy and momentum, Compton was able to account for the effect completely. However, at the same time, in the same experiment, Compton was using interference effects, depending wholly on the wave model, in order to determine the wavelength of the scattered radiation. So here was an experiment which apparently required the simultaneous use of both the wave and particle models of electromagnetic radiation for the interpretation of the results! The existence of this strange dichotomy in the nature of electromagnetic radiation was just one indication of the need for a radical revision of views regarding the physical world.
Abstract In this work we analyze the wave–particle aspects of radiation in (incoherent) Compton scattering in the radiation energy range from 2–100 keV. From the calculated cross sections of the scattering from the electron (positron), hydrogen and positronium we construct the interpretation functions (IFs), where our assertion is that the Compton scattering from the free electron (positron) is an established example of the particle behavior of radiation. These IFs estimate the possibility of the interpretation of radiation in terms of waves or particles in an analogy with the analysis carried out in the coherent scattering of light. Based on these IFs we propose a new criterion for the estimation of the validity of the impulse approximation (IA).
Traditional textbook explanations of the Compton effect treat the photon electron interaction as a particle collision. This explanation is a pedagogical disaster, implying that sometimes interactions are particle-like whereas quantum mechanics always demands that they be wave-like; a photon wavefunction evolves according to a wave equation until its collapse at measurement. If this is so why then does the classical radiation wave equation fail to predict the Compton effect? We address these issues and propose a clearer explanation.