GAMMA-RAY PRODUCTION IN A STORAGE-RING FREE-ELECTRON LASER

Authors
LITVINENKO VN BURNHAM B EMAMIAN M HOWER N MADEY JMJ MORCOMBE P OSHEA PG PARK SH SACHTSCHALE R STRAUB KD SWIFT G WANG P WU Y CANON RS HOWELL CR ROBERSON NR SCHREIBER EC SPRAKER M TORNOW W WELLER HR PINAYEV IV GAVRILOV NG FEDOTOV MG KULIPANOV GN KURKIN GY MIKHAILOV SF POPIK VM SKRINSKY AN VINOKUROV NA NORUM BE LUMPKIN A YANG B
Citation
Vn. Litvinenko et al., GAMMA-RAY PRODUCTION IN A STORAGE-RING FREE-ELECTRON LASER, Physical review letters, 78(24), 1997, pp. 4569-4572
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
78
Issue
24
Year of publication
1997
Pages
4569 - 4572
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1997)78:24<4569:GPIASF>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
A nearly monochromatic beam of 100% linearly polarized gamma rays has been produced via Compton backscattering inside a free electron laser optical cavity. The beam of 12.2 MeV gamma rays was obtained by backsc attering 379.4 nm free-electron laser photons from 500 MeV electron's circulating in a storage ring. A detailed description of the gamma-ray beam and the outlook for future improvements are presented.