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Traveling-wave Thomson scattering for electron-beam spectroscopy

Q. Chen1, V. Horný2, R. Syed1, and D. Umstadter1,*

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Fysikgården 1, 412 58 Gothenburg, Sweden

  • *donald.umstadter@unl.edu
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Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 24, 032901 – Published 15 March, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.24.032901

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We propose a method to use traveling-wave Thomson scattering for spatiotemporally-resolved electron spectroscopy. This can enable ultrafast time-resolved measurements of the dynamics of relativistic electrons in the presence of extremely intense light fields, either in vacuum or in plasma, such as in laser wakefield accelerators. We demonstrate, with test-particle simulation and analysis, the capability of this technique for measurements of various high field phenomena: radiation reaction of electrons due to scattering, dephasing of a laser wakefield accelerator, and acceleration of electrons in multiple buckets by a laser wakefield.

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Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 24, 032901– Published 15 March, 2021
  • Received 31 May 2020
  • Accepted 26 February 2021
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