AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE DEPENDENCE OF ELASTIC PHOTON-ATOM SCATTERING
ON TARGET POLARIZATION AND ENERGY RESOLUTION
J. P. J. Carney and R. H. Pratt
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
We consider the case of elastic photon scattering from atoms, and attempt to go beyond the level of
description used in currently available results, to include features connected with scattering from
non s-state targets and consequences for the partition between elastic and inelastic processes
connected with finite energy resolution for the detected photons.