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Light Sources at High Photon Energies

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Novel Lights Sources Beyond Free Electron Lasers

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Main characteristics used to compare different light sources are introduced. An overview is presented of the modern light sources based on the motion of ultra-relativistic charges in the field of permanent magnets: synchrotrons, undulators, and free-electron lasers. Brilliance of radiation formed in these light sources is compared. Schemes for short-wavelength light sources operating in the gamma-ray domain are described including those based on (i) the Compton scattering from free electron as well as from the electron bound to ion moving with ultra-relativistic velocity (the Gamma factory proposal to CERN) and (ii) two-stage laser-wakefield accelerators driven by a single multi-petawatt laser pulse.

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    In literature, one can find another term for this type of radiation—magnetic bremsstrahlung. This term is more frequently used in application to the astrophysical problems; see Ref. [6].

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Korol, A., Solov’yov, A.V. (2022). Light Sources at High Photon Energies. In: Novel Lights Sources Beyond Free Electron Lasers. Particle Acceleration and Detection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04282-9_3

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