ELI Gammatron beamline: a dawn of ultrafast hard X-ray science

0566154 - FZÚ 2023 RIV CH eng J - Journal Article
Chaulagain, Uddhab P. - Lamač, Marcel - Raclavský, Marek - Khakurel, Krishna - Rao, Kavya Hemantha - Ta-Phuoc, K. - Bulanov, Sergey V. - Nejdl, Jaroslav
ELI Gammatron beamline: a dawn of ultrafast hard X-ray science.
Photonics. Roč. 9, č. 11 (2022), č. článku 853. E-ISSN 2304-6732
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT EF16_019/0000789; GA MŠMT LQ1606; GA MŠMT EE2.3.20.0279
Grant - others:OP VVV - ADONIS(XE) CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000789
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : laser wakefield acceleration * betatron radiation * inverse compton radiation * phase contrast imaging * warm dense matter * laser plasma interaction
OECD category: Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
Impact factor: 2.4, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access

The realization of compact X-ray sources is one of the most intriguing applications of laser-plasma based electron acceleration. These sources based on the oscillation of short micron-sized bunches of relativistic electrons provide femtosecond X-ray pulses that are collimated, bright, and partially coherent. The state-of-the-art laser plasma X-ray sources can provide photon flux of over 1011 photons/shot. The photon flux can further be enhanced with the availability of high repetition rate, high-power lasers, providing capacities complementary to the large scale facilities such as synchrotrons and X-ray free-electron lasers. Even though the optimization of such sources has been underway for the last two decades, their applications in material and biological sciences are still emerging, which entail the necessity of a user-oriented X-ray beamlines.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0337582