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Sources of Spectral Photon Radiation

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The chapter treats the various experimental methods to generate high-energy photons from accelerated and relativistic charges, relevant for applications in chemistry, biology, material science and physics which will be treated in Chaps.

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Lewerenz, HJ. (2012). Sources of Spectral Photon Radiation. In: Photons in Natural and Life Sciences. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 157. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23749-2_2

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