Comparative study of betatron radiation from laser-wakefield and direct-laser accelerated bunches of relativistic electrons

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7359, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kneip, S ^a   McGuffey, C ^b   Nagel, S R ^a   Palmer, C ^a   Bellei, C ^a   Schreiber, J ^a   Huntington, C ^b   Dollar, F ^b   Matsuoka, T ^b   Chvykov, V ^b   Kalintchenko, G ^b   Yanovsky, V ^b   Maksimchuk, A ^b   Phuoc, K Ta ^c   Mangles, S P D ^a   Krushelnick, K ^a,b   Najmudin, Z ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

Author keywords

Betatron; Laser; Plasma; Sychrotron radiation; Wakefield acceleration; X ray

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC LIMITS; BETATRON RESONANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; FOCUSED LASER; HARD X RAY; HIGH LASER INTENSITIES; LASER INTENSITIES; LOW DENSITY; MONOENERGETIC; PLASMA CAVITIES; PLASMA CHANNEL; RADIATIVE REGIME; RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON; SOFT X-RAY; SOURCE SIZES; SYCHROTRON RADIATION; TRANSVERSE OSCILLATION; ULTRASHORT LASER PULSE; WAKE FIELDS; WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION;

BETATRONS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; LASER PULSES; LASERS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PLASMA WAVES; PLASMAS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RADIATION; SUN; X RAYS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 69949155101     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.820657     Document Type: Conference Paper

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