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Thank you. These processes were explained to me in the context of an introductory quantum class and many of the details of the experiments were brushed over because our primary focus is on the necessity of the quantum nature of light to explain apparent paradoxes in the results. However, I would...

I understand this. So what can be said about the atoms of the target material used in the photoelectric effect versus the atoms of the target material during x-ray scattering? Is it just a coincidence that the atoms of the target material in the photoelectric effect had just the right electron...

During the photoelectric process, photons are absorbed and electrons are ejected. In Compton scattering, photons are scattered rather than absorbed. My textbook (Quantum Physics of Atoms,Molecules,Solids,Nuclei, and Particles) explains that absorption occurs in the photoelectric process because...