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Betts, M.

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RPAE020 Production of High Harmonic X-Ray Radiation from Non-linear Thomson at LLNL PLEIADES 1673
 
  • J. Lim, A. Doyuran, P. Frigola, J.B. Rosenzweig, G. Travish
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California
  • S.G. Anderson, M. Betts, K. Crane, D.J. Gibson, F.V. Hartemann, A.M. Tremaine
    LLNL, Livermore, California
 
  Funding: US-DOE under contract no. DE-FG-98ER45693 and DE-FG03-92ER40693, and by LLNL under contract no. W-7405-Eng-48 and the LLNL ILSA program under contract LS04-001-B.

We describe an experiment for production of high harmonic x-ray radiation from Thomson backscattering of an ultra-short high power density laser by a relativistic electron beam at the PLEIADES facility at LLNL. In this scenario, electrons execute a “figure-8” motion under the influence of the high-intensity laser field, where the constant characterizing the field strength is expected to exceed unity: $aL=e*EL/m*c*ωL ≥ 1$. With large $aL$ this motion produces high harmonic x-ray radiation and significant broadening of the spectral peaks. This paper is intended to give a layout of the PLEIADES experiment, along with progress towards experimental goals.