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Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy At Ultra-low Temperatures
Published on: October 9, 2012
Resonant diffraction radiation from an ultrarelativistic particle moving close to a tilted grating
A P Potylitsyn1, P V Karataev, G A Naumenko
1Institute for Nuclear Physics, Tomsk Polytechnic University, 634050, prospekt Lenina 2A, Tomsk, Russia.
Abstract:
A simple model for calculating the diffraction radiation characteristics from an ultrarelativistic charged particle moving close to a tilted ideally conducting strip is developed. Resonant diffraction radiation (RDR) is treated as a superposition of the radiation fields for periodically spaced strips. The RDR characteristics have been calculated as a function of the number of grating elements, tilted angle, and initial particle energy. An analogy with both the resonant transition radiation in an absorbing medium and the parametric x-ray radiation is noted.
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