Quantitative X-ray microanalysis requires the use of many fundamental constants related to the interaction of the electron beam with the sample. The current state of our knowledge of such constants in the particular areas of electron stopping power, X-ray ionization cross-sections, X-ray fluorescence yield, and the electron backscattering yield, is examined. It is found that, in every case, the...

Recent progress in high power laser development has attracted a growing interest in generating x-rays by Compton (or Thomson) backscattering an intense laser pulse off a high energy electron beam [1,2]. If λ L is the laser wavelength, γ is the electron energy in units of its rest mass mec , and θ is the angle of the scattered x-ray photon with respect to the direction of the electron trajectory...

In this contribution we present a brief overview of recent results about the effects of electron-phonon interaction in electronic transport through metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes. In particular, we present an electron-phonon-induced backscattering mechanism which can be seen as the removal of degeneracies in the electron-phonon Fock space. This mechanism, which is activated when drivin...