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Abstract:
The newly discovered effect of Full Inverse Compton Scattering has shown several implications to unexpected phenomena, like the achievement of extremely high accelerations with electronscoming to a sudden stop from relativistisc velocities, therefore showing potentialities of detecting Unruh radiation, and opening a portal towards quantum gravity, and like the emission of photons with energy larger than that of the emitting electron, in apparent violation of energy conservation.We will discuss these new findings with an eye at the historical development, throughout the last century, in the understanding of QED electron-photon interactions, from the nuclear bomb development to the first studies on cosmic rays, to the development of modern Inverse Compton Scattering advanced sources of X/gamma rays. Full Inverse Compton Scattering can have significant impacts also in other fields like plasma physics, with the capability of trapping electrons (positrons) in magnetic bottles, with the spectral purification of broad-band gamma ray photon beams, and with several possibile implications in the field of gamma ray cosmic sources. Possible experimental set-ups for the experimental verification of FICS will be shown, ranging from low energy electrons in the 100s keV range to mid-energy protons in the tens MeV range to GeV-class electrons.