Dr. Gerd Priebe, Results from the Daresbury Compton backscattering X-ray source

Wednesday 23 Apr 2014, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Bucharest

X-ray pulses with peak energy of 0.6 Å have been generated via head-on collision of laser pulses from the high-field laser facility at Daresbury with the electron bunches of the ALICE energy recovery linear accelerator operating at 29.6 MeV. The angular distribution of the backscattered X-rays was obtained in single-shot using a scintillation screen. The temporal profile of the X-ray yield as a function of the time delay between the laser pulse and electron bunch was measured and agreed well with that expected from the collision point dependence of the laser-electron beam longitudinal overlap.