Thomson scattering of coherent diffraction radiation by an electron bunch

This paper considers the process of Thomson scattering of coherent diffract ion radiation (CDR) produced by the preceding electron bunch in the acceler ator onto one of the subsequent bunches. it is shown that the yield of scat tered hard photons is proportional to N-e(3), where N-e is the number of el ectrons per bunch. A geometry is chosen for the CDR generation and an expre ssion is obtained for the scattered-photon spectrum, with regard to the geo metry used, that depends explicitly on the bunch size. A technique is propo sed for measuring the bunch length using scattered radiation characteristic s. [S1063-651X(99)03408-X].