Transverse oscillating bubble enhanced laser-driven betatron X-ray radiation generation

@article{Rakowski2022TransverseOB,
  title={Transverse oscillating bubble enhanced laser-driven betatron X-ray radiation generation},
  author={Rafal Rakowski and Ping Zhang and Kyle Jensen and Brendan Kettle and Tim Kawamoto and Sudeep Banerjee and Colton Fruhling and Grigory Golovin and Daniel Haden and Matthew S Robinson and Donald Umstadter and Bradley A. Shadwick and M Fuchs},
  journal={Scientific Reports},
  year={2022},
  volume={12}
}
Ultrafast high-brightness X-ray pulses have proven invaluable for a broad range of research. Such pulses are typically generated via synchrotron emission from relativistic electron bunches using large-scale facilities. Recently, significantly more compact X-ray sources based on laser-wakefield accelerated (LWFA) electron beams have been demonstrated. In particular, laser-driven sources, where the radiation is generated by transverse oscillations of electrons within the plasma accelerator… 
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