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A number of laboratories are currently developing monochromatic sources of X-rays and gamma quanta based on the Compton backscattering (CBS) of laser photons by relativistic electrons. Modern technologies are capable of providing a concentration of electrons and photons in the interaction point such that each primary electron can emit several hard photons. In contrast to the well-known nonlinear CBS process, in which an initial electron “absorbs” a few laser photons and emits a single hard one, the above-mentioned process can be called a multiple CBS process and is characterized by a mean number of emitted photons. The present paper is devoted to simulating the parameters of a beam of back scattered quanta based on the Monte Carlo technique. It is shown that, even in the case of strong collimation of a resulting photon beam, the radiation monochromaticity may deteriorate because of the contribution coming from the multiple photon emission, which is something that must be considered while designing new CBS sources.
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Original Russian Text © A.P. Potylitsyn, A.M. Kolchuzhkin, 2014, published in Fizika Elementarnykh Chastits i Atomnogo Yadra, 2014, Vol. 45, No. 5.
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Potylitsyn, A.P., Kolchuzhkin, A.M. Statistical simulation of multiple Compton backscattering process. Phys. Part. Nuclei 45, 1000–1012 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779614050062
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