Betatron radiation from laser wakefield accelerators and its applications

This thesis will detail experimental research in to laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA), with a particular focus on LWFA's as compact sources of brilliant, hard synchrotron radiation, so-called betatron radiation. The first results presented are from an experiment where a ~10 TW laser pulse was...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wood, Jonathan
Other Authors: Najmudin, Zulfikar
Published: Imperial College London 2016
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.739605