Beam by design: Laser manipulation of electrons in modern accelerators

E Hemsing, G Stupakov, D Xiang, A Zholents - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2014 - APS
Accelerator-based light sources such as storage rings and free-electron lasers use
relativistic electron beams to produce intense radiation over a wide spectral range for …

Nuclear photonics: results and prospects

VG Nedorezov, SG Rykovanov, AB Savel'ev - Physics-Uspekhi, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the modern state of research in a new scientific field that has emerged recently:
nuclear photonics. The name is primarily associated with the development of new …

Generation of optical vortices by nonlinear inverse Thomson scattering at arbitrary angle interactions

Y Taira, M Katoh - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We theoretically verify that optical vortices carrying orbital angular momentum are generated
in various astrophysical situations via nonlinear inverse Thomson scattering. Arbitrary angle …

Analytical description of photon beam phase spaces in inverse Compton scattering sources

C Curatolo, I Drebot, V Petrillo, L Serafini - Physical Review Accelerators and …, 2017 - APS
We revisit the description of inverse Compton scattering sources and the photon beams
generated therein, emphasizing the behavior of their phase space density distributions and …

Simulation of inverse Compton scattering and its implications on the scattered linewidth

N Ranjan, B Terzić, GA Krafft, V Petrillo, I Drebot… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2018 - APS
Rising interest in inverse Compton sources has increased the need for efficient models that
properly quantify the behavior of scattered radiation given a set of interaction parameters …

Narrow-band photon beam via laser Compton scattering in an energy recovery linac

T Akagi, A Kosuge, S Araki, R Hajima, Y Honda… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2016 - APS
Narrow-bandwidth photon beams in the x-ray and γ-ray energy ranges are expected to be
applied in various fields. An energy recovery linac (ERL)-based laser Compton scattering …

Narrow-band emission in Thomson sources operating in the high-field regime

B Terzić, K Deitrick, AS Hofler, GA Krafft - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
We present a novel and quite general analysis of the interaction of a high-field chirped laser
pulse and a relativistic electron, in which exquisite control of the spectral brilliance of the up …

BriXS, a new X-ray inverse Compton source for medical applications

P Cardarelli, A Bacci, R Calandrino, F Canella… - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
MariX is a research infrastructure conceived for multi-disciplinary studies, based on a cutting-
edge system of combined electron accelerators at the forefront of the world-wide scenario of …

Intense monochromatic photons above 100 keV from an inverse Compton source

K Deitrick, GH Hoffstaetter, C Franck, BD Muratori… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2021 - APS
Quasimonochromatic x rays are difficult to produce above 100 keV, but have a number of
uses in x-ray and nuclear science, particularly in the analysis of transuranic species. Inverse …

Design study for a compact laser-driven source for medical x-ray fluorescence imaging

T Brümmer, A Debus, R Pausch, J Osterhoff… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2020 - APS
Thomson scattering sources with their hard x-ray pencil beams represent a promising
candidate to drive high-resolution X-ray Fluorescence Imaging (XFI). As XFI is a scanning …