Spectral characteristics of Compton backscattering sources. Linear and nonlinear modes

Abstract

Compton backscattering (CBS) of laser photons by relativistic electrons is widely used to design X-ray and gamma sources with a bandwidth better than 1% using a tight collimation. In order to obtain a reasonable intensity of the resulting beam one has to increase power of a laser pulse simultaneously with narrowing of the waist in the interaction point. It can lead to nonlinearity of CBS process which is affected on spectral characteristics of the collimated gamma beam (so-called "red-shift" of the spectral line, emission of "soft" photons with energy much less than the spectral line energy). In this paper we have analyzed such an influence using Monte-Carlo technique and have shown that even weak nonlinearity should be taken into account if the gamma beam is formed by a narrow aperture.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	246-250
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Volume	355
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2015.03.038
Publication status	Published - 9 Jun 2015

Keywords

Compton scattering
Laser radiation
Nonlinearity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Instrumentation

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