Mats Lindroos
Adjunct professor
Application of Accelerators and Storage Rings
Author
Summary, in English
It is well known from Maxwell theory that electromagnetic radiation is emitted whenever electric charges are accelerated in free space. This radiation assumes quite extraordinary properties whenever the charged particles move at ultrarelativistic speed: The radiation becomes very powerful and tightly collimated in space, and it may easily cover a rather wide spectrum ranging from the THz into the hard X-ray regime. When generation of such radiation is intended rather than being a side effect, the charged particles are normally electrons, thus kinetic energies are then typically in the multi-MeV range.
Department/s
- MAX IV Laboratory
Publishing year
2020
Language
English
Pages
661-795
Publication/Series
Particle Physics Reference Library : Volume 3: Accelerators and Colliders
Volume
3
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Topic
- Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 9783030342449
- ISBN: 9783030342456