Half-wavelength velocity bunching: non-adiabatic temporal focusing of charged particle beams

• Published in: New journal of physics Vol. 25; no. 12; pp. 123049 - 123060
• Main Authors: Opanasenko, Anatoliy, Perosa, Giovanni, Ribbing, Johan, Goryashko, Vitaliy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.12.2023
• Subjects: Adiabatic flow; Brightness; bunch compression; Bunching; Charged particles; Coherence length; Diffractometers; Electromagnetic fields; Electron beams; Electrons; Elementary excitations; femtosecond high-brightness electron beams; Free electron lasers; Magnons; Particle beams; Physics; Plasmons; space-charge

X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) and megaelectronvolt ultrafast electron diffractometers (MeV UEDs) are revolutionary scientific instruments that allow visualizing the dynamics of elementary excitations in a wide range of systems from atoms and molecules to phonons, magnons and plasmons. Femtoseco...