Structured x-ray beams from twisted electrons by inverse Compton scattering of laser light
arXiv:1407.4329 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.90.012118
Abstract
The inverse Compton scattering of laser light on high-energetic twisted electrons is investigated with the aim to construct spatially structured x-ray beams. In particular, we analyze how the properties of the twisted electrons, such as the topological charge and aperture angle of the electron Bessel beam, affects the energy and angular distribution of scattered x-rays. We show that with suitably chosen initial twisted electron states one can synthesize tailor-made x-ray beam profiles with a well-defined spatial structure, in a way not possible with ordinary plane-wave electron beams.
7 pages, 4 figures; corrected references
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