COLLECTIVE BUNCHING OF UNCHARGED MACROSCOPIC-PARTICLES VIA AN FEL-LIKE INSTABILITY

Authors
MCNEIL BWJ ROBB GRM AITKEN P PHELPS ADR
Citation
Bwj. Mcneil et al., COLLECTIVE BUNCHING OF UNCHARGED MACROSCOPIC-PARTICLES VIA AN FEL-LIKE INSTABILITY, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 407(1-3), 1998, pp. 141-145
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
407
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
141 - 145
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1998)407:1-3<141:CBOUMV>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
A classical theory of the scattering of electromagnetic radiation by u ncharged macroscopic particles is presented, in which the particles ma y interact cooperatively via common pump and probe radiation fields. T he collective nature of the process is manifest both in the exponentia l growth of the bunching of the particles at the radiation wavelength scale to form a particle grating, and in the exponential growth of the counterpropagating probe radiation intensity. The equations describin g this phenomenon are shown to be of the same form as those describing the Compton FEL. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.