Experimental observation of relativistic nonlinear Thomson scattering

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6712, 1998, Pages 653-655

  Chen, Szu Yuan ^a   Maksimchuk, Anatoly ^a   Umstadter, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; LASER; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

EID: 0032542363     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25303     Document Type: Article

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