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X-ray emission from hollow atoms produced by collisions of multiply charged ions with a solid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2002

KENGO MORIBAYASHI
Affiliation:
Advanced Photon Research Center, Kansai Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, 8-1, Umemidai, Kizu-cho, Souraku-Gun, Kyoto, 619-0215, Japan
KEIKO SUTO
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Nara Women's University, Nara, 630-8506, Japan Current address: Advanced Photon Research Center, Kansai Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, 8-1, Umemidai, Kizu-cho, Souraku-Gun, Kyoto, 619-0215, Japan
A. ZHIDKOV
Affiliation:
Advanced Photon Research Center, Kansai Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, 8-1, Umemidai, Kizu-cho, Souraku-Gun, Kyoto, 619-0215, Japan Current address: Nuclear Engineering Research Laboratory, University of Tokyo, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki, 319-11, Japan
AKIRA SASAKI
Affiliation:
Advanced Photon Research Center, Kansai Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, 8-1, Umemidai, Kizu-cho, Souraku-Gun, Kyoto, 619-0215, Japan
TAKASHI KAGAWA
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Nara Women's University, Nara, 630-8506, Japan

Abstract

The X-ray emission from hollow atoms produced by collisions of multiply charged ions accelerated by a short pulse laser with a solid or foil is studied theoretically. The possibility of obtaining a high conversion efficiency X-ray source in an ultrafast atomic process (∼1 fs) is demonstrated using the multistep-capture-and-loss (MSCL) model. Such an X-ray source has a clear advantage for the spectral range around a few kiloelectron volts over the conventional Kα X-ray source. Namely, the number of X-ray photons increases as the laser energy becomes larger and could reach 3 × 1011 photons for a laser energy of about 10 J.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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