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Demonstration of high photon yields and nonlinearity in relativistic thomson scattering

  • I. V. Pogorelsky
  • , M. Babzien
  • , I. Ben-Zvi
  • , K. Kusche
  • , I. V. Pavlishin
  • , D. P. Siddons
  • , V. Yakimenko
  • , D. Cline
  • , F. Zhou
  • , T. Hirose
  • , Y. Kamiya
  • , T. Kumita
  • , T. Omori
  • , J. Urakawa
  • , K. Yokoya
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • Waseda University
  • Tokyo Metropolitan University
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba

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Abstract

We present a progress report on the BNL's experiment on Thomson scattering from 60 MeV electrons in a counter-propagating terawatt CO2 laser beam. The measured x-ray yield averages to one photon per electron within the laser/e-beam overlap region. The observed changes in the spectral and polar distributions of the x-ray beam with the increase of the laser intensity mark the onset of a strong nonlinearity. This indicates that electron's oscillation in the laser field transforms to the figure-eight trajectory.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationADVANCED ACCELERATOR CONCEPTS
Subtitle of host publication12th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop
Pages402-408
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
EventADVANCED ACCELERATOR CONCEPTS: 12th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop - Lake Geneva, WI, United States
Duration: Jul 10 2006Jul 15 2006

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume877
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

ConferenceADVANCED ACCELERATOR CONCEPTS: 12th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLake Geneva, WI
Period07/10/0607/15/06

Keywords

  • CO laser
  • Electron beam
  • Harmonics
  • Thomson scattering

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