Electron-photon interaction in dense media [proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Electron-Photon Interaction in Dense Media ; Nor-Hambered, Yerevan, Armenia ; 25-29 June, 2001

A comprehensive survey of recent theoretical and experimental progress in the area of electron-photon interaction and dense media. A state-of-the-art discussion of radiation production, with descriptions of new ideas and technologies that enhance the production of X-rays in the form of channelling, transition and parametric X-ray production. Progress in electron beam physics to produce sub-picosecond electron bunches from low-energy linear accelerators make it possible to produce coherent, high brightness, submillimeter radiation and sub-picosecond X-ray pulses. Micro-undulators in the form of bent crystalline structures hold great promise as future X-ray sources. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Overview of Radiation from Dense Media....Pages 1-5 Channeling Radiation: A Historical Perspective....Pages 7-24 Parametric X-Ray Radiation, Transition Radiation and Bremsstrahlung in X-Ray Region. A Comparative Analysis....Pages 25-47 X-Rays from Relativistic Electrons in Condensed Media....Pages 49-83 A Semiclassical Approach to the Radiation Damping Force....Pages 85-90 Optical Transition and Diffraction Radiation Diagnostics for Relativistic Charged Particle Beams....Pages 91-107 Resonance Transition Radiation....Pages 109-116 Coherent Radio-Wave Transition Radiation (CRTR) of Periodic Bunches....Pages 117-124 Experiments with Stimulated Transition Radiation....Pages 125-132 Investigations and Properties of PXR....Pages 133-151 On the Line Shape of Backward Emitted Parametric X-Radiation....Pages 153-181 Parametric X-Ray Radiation (PXR) Produced in Carbon Single Wall Nanotubes (SWNT) and Fullerites....Pages 183-189 Bunch Coherence in Parametric X-Ray Radiation....Pages 191-196 Coherent Radiation from Relativistic Electrons in Oriented Crystal....Pages 197-210 Particle Acceleration in Crystalline and Nanotube Undulators Taking into Account the Medium Polarization....Pages 211-216 Channeling Radiation from Thick Crystals and at High Electron-Bunch Charges....Pages 217-228 Quantum-Mechanical Calculation of the Channeling Radiation Produced in a Periodically Distorted Crystal....Pages 229-238 Channeling in Nanotubes and Fullerites....Pages 239-256 Resonance Tunneling Mechanism of Field Emission from Carbon Nanotube....Pages 257-262 Photon Emission by Ultra-Relativistic Positrons in Crystalline Undulators....Pages 263-275 Crystalline Micro Undulator....Pages 277-282 The Influence of Strong Crystalline Fields on QED-Processes Investigated Using Diamond Crystals → Crystals in γ,γ Colliders....Pages 283-293 Effect of Density Correlations on the Coherency of Relativistic Bunch Radiation....Pages 295-301 Vibrating Wires Fence as a Negligibly Destructive Beam Profile and Beam Position Monitor....Pages 303-308 New Radiation with Non-Linear Dependence on Electron Beam Intensity....Pages 309-312 The Radiation Source Elbe at the Research Center Rossendorf....Pages 313-319 Production and Use of Femtosecond Electron Bunches....Pages 321-329 Armenian Light Source, CANDLE ....Pages 331-348 Insertion Devices for the CANDLE Light Source....Pages 349-356 Design Study of Diffraction Beamline for CANDLE ....Pages 357-363 Material Science Application on CANDLE....Pages 365-371 Structural Molecular Biology — The New Perspective for Regional Science....Pages 373-382 An Outlook for Biopolymer and Ligands Study on CANDLE....Pages 383-396 Environmental Investigations in Armenia....Pages 397-401 Back Matter....Pages 403-405 When a relativistic charged particle passes through a single crystal very nearly parallel to a major crystalline plane or axis so that it is channeled in that direction, it undergoes periodic motion in the plane transverse to this direction, and hence it can radiate.