Glad to see a new discussion about this.
Still making my way through the other thread, almost done...
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Originally Posted by papageno
It is Compton effect, and if you look it up, you will see that if the photon does not change direction in the scattering event, the wavelength does not change, no matter what the initial momentum of the electron is.**
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I was
under the impression that Compton Effect implied a change of direction and loss of energy. Can theta = 0? That is, can Compton scatter occur without a loss of energy? I can't find an example of such a case.