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Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 10, 011301 (2007) [8 pages]

Compton scattering x-ray sources driven by laser wakefield acceleration

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F. V. Hartemann, D. J. Gibson, and W. J. Brown*
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA

A. Rousse, K. Ta Phuoc, V. Mallka, and J. Faure
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées, Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, 91761 Palaiseau, France

A. Pukhov
Institute for Theoretische Physik I, University of Dusseldorf, 40225 Dusseldorf, Germany

Received 19 October 2005; revised 15 December 2006; published 24 January 2007

Recent laser wakefield acceleration experiments have demonstrated the generation of femtosecond, nano-Coulomb, low emittance, nearly monokinetic relativistic electron bunches of sufficient quality to produce bright, tunable, ultrafast x-rays via Compton scattering. Design parameters for a proof-of-concept experiment are presented using a three-dimensional Compton scattering code and a laser-plasma interaction particle-in-cell code modeling the wakefield acceleration process; x-ray fluxes exceeding 1021   s-1 are predicted, with a peak brightness >1019   photons/(mm2 mrad2 s   0.1%   bandwidth)).

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© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.10.011301
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.10.011301
PACS:
41.75.Jv, 52.38.−r, 41.60.Cr, 41.50.+h

*Current address: Lincoln Laboratory, MIT, Lexington, MA 02420.

 
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