Ultra-bright, ultra-broadband hard x-ray driven by laser-produced energetic electron beams
Author(s) -
Yin Shi,
Baifei Shen,
Xiaomei Zhang,
Wenpeng Wang,
Liangliang Ji,
Lingang Zhang,
Jiancai Xu,
Yahong Yu,
Xueyan Zhao,
Xiaofeng Wang,
Longqing Yi,
Tongjun Xu,
Zhizhan Xu
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
physics of plasmas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1089-7674
pISSN - 1070-664X
DOI - 10.1063/1.4820777
Subject(s) - physics , laser , optics , thermal emittance , brightness , electron , plasma , beam (structure) , ultrashort pulse , photon , nuclear physics
We propose a new method of obtaining a compact ultra-bright, ultra-broadband hard X-ray source. This X-ray source has a high peak brightness in the order of 1022 photons/(s mm2 mrad2 0.1\%BW), an ultrashort duration (10 fs), and a broadband spectrum (flat distribution from 0.1 MeV to 4 MeV), and thus has wide-ranging potential applications, such as in ultrafast Laue diffraction experiments. In our scheme, laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) provide driven electron beams. A foil target is placed oblique to the beam direction so that the target normal sheath field (TNSF) is used to provide a bending force. Using this TNSF-kick scheme, we can fully utilize the advantages of current LPAs, including their high charge, high energy, and low emittance
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