Obserbation of High Intensity X-rays in Inverse Compton Scattering Experiment
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چکیده
We report the first results of high intensity x-ray generation using Inverse Laser Compton scattering. This experiment was carried out by a US-Japan collaboration at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) in September 1999.The ATF is an accelerator and beam physics user facility. The 3.5 ps x-ray pulse at 6.5 keV, containing ~107 x-ray photons was generated by interacting 60 MeV, 0.5 nC electron bunches and CO2 laser pulses with the peak power of 600 MW.
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