Investigations of Energy Dependence of Saturation Thickness of Multiply Backscattered Gamma Photons in Carbon

Abstract

In Compton scattering experiments employing thick targets one observes that the numbers of multiply backscattered photons increases with increase in target thickness and then saturate at a particular target thickness called saturation thickness. In present experiment the measured saturation thickness for multiply backscattering of gamma photons is found to be decreasing with increase in energy of incident gamma photons.