Angular distribution and polarization properties of radiation scattering in the classical framework.

We study the scattering of intense electromagnetic radiation on free relativistic electrons in the classical formalism. Starting from the well known property that in the relativistic regime the radiation is emitted by an accelerated charged particle along its instantaneous velocity direction we discuss the effects of the radiation reaction on the shape of the angular distribution in Thomson effect for the case of linear and circular polarization of the incident light and for different collision geometries. We also study the polarization properties of the emitted radiation for several low intensity cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]