Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 10, 011301 (2007) [8 pages]Compton scattering x-ray sources driven by laser wakefield acceleration
F. V. Hartemann, D. J. Gibson, and W. J. Brown *
A. Rousse, K. Ta Phuoc, V. Mallka, and J. Faure
A. Pukhov 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)). ©2007 The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.10.011301 * Current address: Lincoln Laboratory, MIT, Lexington, MA 02420. [ Abstract | Previous article | Next article | Issue 1 ] |
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