Speakers
Description
At Eindhoven University of Technology a lab-based tabletop Inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) source is being commissioned. This compact and affordable X-ray source will bridge the gap between conventional lab X-ray sources and synchrotrons.
A 100 kV DC photo electron gun is used in combination with a bunching cavity to produce electron bunches that are injected in a X-band accelerator. The high gradient X-band accelerator is adapted from an original design for the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC). The accelerated electron bunches are focused and collide with a focused 12 mJ/pulse 800 nm laser beam thereby producing X-ray photons with energies between 10 and 40 keV. The physical basis behind the production of the X-rays is the ICS process in which photons from the laser pulse are bounced off a relativistic electron bunch, turning them into X-ray photons through the relativistic Doppler effect.
An overview of the design and results of the commissioning will be given.
Funding Agency
This project is financed by the “Interreg programme Flanders-Netherlands” with financial support of the European Fund for Regional Development.
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