TY - BOOK AU - Curcio,Alessandro AU - Dattoli,G. AU - Di Palma,Emanuele ED - Institute of Physics (Great Britain), TI - Backscattering sources T2 - [IOP release $release] SN - 9780750359795 AV - QC794.6.S3 C873 2024eb vol. 2 PY - 2024///] CY - Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) PB - IOP Publishing KW - Backscattering KW - Particles (Nuclear physics) KW - X-rays KW - Gamma ray sources KW - Particle & high-energy physics KW - bicssc KW - SCIENCE / Physics / Particle KW - bisacsh N1 - "Version: 20241101"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references; 1. An introduction to high-intensity lasers and nonlinear quantum electrodynamics -- 1.1. Evolution of laser technology and the associated intensities -- 1.2. Going deeper into the fundamental role of the laser strength parameter -- 1.3. The phenomenology of the interaction between electrons/matter and a high-intensity laser -- 1.4. Sauter-Schwinger fields and associated phenomenology -- 1.5. Concluding comments -- 1.6. Comments and exercises; 2. Quantum electrodynamics and Feynman diagrams : an elementary exposition -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Dirac equation, antiparticles, and St�uckelberg-Dirac interpretation -- 2.3. A few useful identities for the calculation of quantum electrodynamic Feynman diagrams -- 2.4. Quantum electrodynamic Feynman diagrams -- 2.5. From diagrams to transition rates -- 2.6. Scattering processes and cross section -- 2.7. Comments and exercises; 3. Nonlinear quantum electrodynamics of Compton backscattering radiation -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Relativistic quantum electrodynamics of an electron in an intense plane wave -- 3.3. Linear Compton backscattering -- 3.4. Nonlinear Compton backscattering -- 3.5. Extremely nonlinear Compton backscattering regime -- 3.6. Spin-flip Compton backscattering radiation -- 3.7. Comments and exercises; 4. Advanced CBS sources -- 4.1. Generalities related to free-electron-laser-based Compton backscattering sources -- 4.2. Essentials of FEL oscillator dynamics -- 4.3. Design criteria of an FEL intracavity CBS device -- 4.4. Comments on FEL-CBS systems designed for high-energy photon beams -- 4.5. Two-color, two-polarization CBS sources -- 4.6. Comments and exercises; Full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers; Scientists and graduate and undergraduate students; Also available in print N2 - The top-performing x-ray and gamma ray sources are synchrotrons and free-electron lasers, which require large investment. Consequently, more affordable and accessible platforms are required for research and applications based on x-rays and gamma rays. Compton backscattering (CBS) is a subset of Thomson and Compton scattering and is the mechanism through which high energy electrons interacting with low energy photons transfer part of their energy to the photons. Accordingly, an infrared photon can, for example, be 'transformed' into an x-ray or gamma ray, in a CBS process. Monochromatic and ultrashort x-ray and gamma ray sources are challenging to make; however, CBS provides a compact and accessible platform for this purpose.Aimed at those entering the field for the first time, this second volume focuses on CBS that produces intense gamma rays of higher energy than typical scattering processes. Theoretical problems between the high energy electrons and laser interactions are discussed, along with the possibility of exploring new effects in strong field quantum electrodynamics and how they can be observed. CBS 'factories' and their design characteristics are analysed and later chapters take a more detailed examination of CBS applications and the future of the field UR - https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-5979-5 ER -