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- V.A. Verzilov
INFN-LNF, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell'INFN, Frascati, Italy
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Transition radiation (TR) is nowadays intensively exploited
by a number of techniques to characterize different beam
parameters. These methods are based, sometimes implicitly,
on standard formulae, and used often without paying
due attention to their applicability. In particular, standard
expressions are only first-order asymptotic, i.e., strictly
speaking, valid at infinity. In this paper TR is examined in a
spatial domain where conventional results are no more exact
and variations in radiation properties are observed. Under
certain conditions, for example, at long wavelengths or
very high energies the effect is so considerable that should
be taken into account in accurate beam measurements.
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