Plasma Accelerators as a source of fs X-rays for probing Matter Under Extreme Conditions

11 Oct 2016, 16:00
10m
Amphi Gregory (Ecole Polytechnique)

Amphi Gregory

Ecole Polytechnique

Route de Saclay 91128 Palaiseau France

Speaker

Stuart Mangles (Imperial College London)

Description

The betatron oscillations of the electron beam inside a laser wakefield accelerator have been shown to produce bright X-rays with some unique properties: namely they are both broadband and have a femtosecond duration. In this talk I will outline future applications that will use these unique properties to perform time resolved X-ray spectroscopy of matter under extreme conditions.

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