Coherent Radiation Sources

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Introduction

   • A. W. Sáenz, H. Überall

   Pages 1-4

3. Theory of Coherent Bremsstrahlung

   • A. W. Sáenz, H. Überall

   Pages 5-31

4. Coherent Bremsstrahlung — Experiment

   • G. D. Kovalenko, L. Ya. Kolesnikov, A. L. Rubashkin

   Pages 33-60

5. Bent Crystal Channeling

   • R. A. Carrigan Jr., W. M. Gibson

   Pages 61-90

6. Classical Theory of the Radiation from Relativistic Channeled Particles

   • V. V. Beloshitsky, M. A. Kumakhov

   Pages 91-126

7. Channeling Radiation — Quantum Theory

   • J. U. Andersen, E. Bonderup, E. Laegsgaard

   Pages 127-164

8. Channeling-Radiation Experiments

   • B. L. Berman, S. Datz

   Pages 165-194

9. Transition Radiation

   • G. B. Yodh

   Pages 195-229

10. Back Matter

    Pages 231-235

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Energetic electromagnetic radiation finds frequent uses in science (e. g. , for expe­ riments in nuclear and elementary - particle physics), in technology (for materials testing), and in medicine (for medical X-rays). The most common method of genera­ ting such radiation is via the process of "bremsstrahlung" (a German term coined by A. Sommerfeld, meaning "braking radiation") in which a beam of electrons is direc­ ted into matter (e. g. , a metal target), losing energy during its collisions with the atoms and releasing this energy in the form of emitted radiation. The character of such radiation may be drastically changed by the use of a tar­ get with periodic structure (most commonly, a crystal target). The coherent waves emitted from individual crystal atoms interfere with each other, monochromatizing and polarizing the radiation and often increasing its intensity manifold, thereby creating a powerful radiation source of high quality for purposes of scientific and technical applications. This is true both for the well - established "coherent bremsstrahlung" process in which the interfering radiation is emitted while the electrons cross a succession of crystal planes, as well as for the more recently discovered process of "channeling radiation" (generating radiation of even higher intensity, but lower energy) in which the radiation is emitted while the electrons propagate along a crystal plane, or a crystal axis, in an oscillatory fashion.

• Radiation
• X-ray
• atoms
• collision
• crystal
• electromagnetic
• electron
• electrons
• energy
• medicine
• metals
• particle physics
• physics
• quality
• structure

• Naval Research Laboratory, USA

  Albert W. Sáenz

• Department of Physics, Catholic University of America, USA

  Albert W. Sáenz, Herbert Überall

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