The effect is widely used in radiation therapy to target and kill cancer cells [11, 30].
Scientists use "Inverse Compton Scattering" to understand high-energy processes in the universe [19, 22]. Compton
Because "Compton" refers to two very different but equally famous subjects—a historic city in California and a foundational discovery in physics—I have provided a deep dive into both. The effect is widely used in radiation therapy
Compton is a city in southern Los Angeles County, famously known as the Hub City because it sits almost exactly in the geographic center of the county [8, 34]. Compton