Research at UH on Bremmstrahlung-based Light Sources

by Prof. John Madey (UH Physics)

Thursday Sep 19, 2013, 3:30 PM → 4:30 PM Pacific/Honolulu

112 (Watanabe Hall)

Free-free radiative transitions like magnetic Bremmstrahlung (synchrotron radiation) and inverse Compton scattering were long of interest to astrophysicists. But it took many years for the practical role of this mechanism to be sorted out amongst both the community of accelerator physicists and the greater research community that now depends on these mechanisms in a process that is still very much underway. In this talk I will discuss both a bit of the history of these developments as they have unfolded over the last 50 years and also the direction and status of our present research here at UH on the underlying physis of these sources and the development of the next generation of high performance x-ray and gamma ray light sources.