If certain energy conditions are met, the particles involved with this process will undergo the photoelectric effect instead.
A component designed by the Max Planck Institute for one of NASA's Great Observatories made use of this effect to create a map of the isotope Aluminum-26. Bothe's coincidence circuit that won him the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics was used to verify one aspect of this effect. The maximum energy which this effect can transfer between particles is its namesake edge, while one variant of it is used to map distant galaxy clusters; (*) that inverse variety of it is the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (suh-NYE-eff ZELL-doh-vitch) effect. If certain energy conditions are met, the particles involved with this process will undergo the photoelectric effect instead. Along with an effect named after J. J. Thomson, this effect is described by the Klein-Nishina (nuh-SHEE-nuh) formula and is only observed with X-rays and gamma rays. For 10 points, name this process where a photon undergoes an inelastic interaction with a charged particle, increasing its wavelength.
A component designed by the Max Planck Institute for one of NASA's Great Observatories made use of this effect to create a map of the isotope Aluminum-26.
Compton scattering [or Compton effect]