Synchrotron radiation occurs when a charged particle, typically an electron, experiences an acceleration transverse to its velocity, as caused by a magnetic field. The following notes emphasize the case when the particle's velocity approaches the speed of light, the limit in which synchrotron radiation becomes prominent. 1 Total Rate The total (classical) radiation rate is obtained from the Lar...

This issue brings together papers from the 6th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation (SRI'97) held in Japan in August 1997. This is one of the major synchrotron radiation conferences, held every three years, and has so far published its proceedings in a variety of journals. Now that the synchrotron radiation community have a journal of their own it is only natural th...

Beams of x rays in the kiloelectronvolt energy range have been produced from laser-matter interaction. Here, energetic electrons are accelerated by a laser wakefield, and experience betatron oscillations in an ion channel formed in the wake of the intense femtosecond laser pulse. Experiments using a 50 TW laser (30 fs duration) are described, as well as comparisons with numerical simulations. T...

I comment on a number of theoretical issues related to magnetobremsstrahlung, and especially on synchrotron radiation and Unruh (temperature) radiation, that I consider of importance for the current progress towards a better understanding of the stationary features of such fundamental radiation patterns both in an accelerator context and, more generally, in the physical world.

Ask class: what does this mean about the total speed? Constant, of course. Ask class: how does the speed along the magnetic field change? It doesn’t, because the acceleration is all perpendicular to magnetic field. Since the total speed is constant and the speed along the field is constant, this implies circular motion around the field, combined with (possibly) a uniform drift along the field. ...

The use of synchrotron radiation (SR) as an excitation source for total reflection X-ray fluorescence analysis (TXRF) offers several advantages over X-ray tube excitation. Detection limits in the fg range can be achieved with efficient excitation for low Z as well as high Z elements due to the features of synchrotron radiation and in particular the high brilliance in a wide spectral range and t...