Synchrotron radiation from laser-accelerated monoenergetic electrons

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 36, Issue 4 PART 4, 2008, Pages 1773-1781

  Schlenvoigt, Hans Peter ^a   Haupt, Kerstin ^b   Debus, Alexander ^c,d   Budde, Fabian ^c   Jäckel, Oliver ^a   Pfotenhauer, Sebastian ^a   Gallacher, Jordan G ^e   Brunetti, Enrico ^e   Shanks, Richard P ^e   Wiggins, Samuel M ^e   Jaroszynski, Dino A ^e   Rohwer, Erich ^b   Schwoerer, Heinrich ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accelerators; Lasers; Synchrotron radiation

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRONS; EXPERIMENTS; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MICROWAVE GENERATION; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; POWER GENERATION; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; SYNCHROTRONS; WIGGLERS;

ACCELERATED ELECTRONS; ACCELERATORS; LASER AND PLASMA; MEV ENERGY; MONOENERGETIC ELECTRONS; PHOTON SPECTRUM; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SECOND ORDERS; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION; SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCES; UNDULATOR; UNDULATOR RADIATION; VISIBLE SPECTRAL RANGES;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 50249107945     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2008.927146     Document Type: Article

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