• Relativistic electron beams are streams of electrons moving at relativistic speeds. They are the lasing medium in free electron lasers to be used in atmospheric...
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    tubes, electron microscopes, electron beam welding, research by means of particle accelerators and the generation of synchrotron radiation. Electrons belong...
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    physics, relativistic beaming (also known as Doppler beaming, Doppler boosting, or the headlight effect) is the process by which relativistic effects modify...
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  • and brief, and are often the result of a relativistic beam impacting some target. (More mundanely, "relativistic plasma" might denote a normal, cold plasma...
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    Electron diffraction is a generic term for phenomena associated with changes in the direction of electron beams due to elastic interactions with atoms...
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    called quarks. Electrons may be scattered through a solid in several ways: Not at all: no electron scattering occurs at all and the beam passes straight...
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    Laser (redirect from Laser beam)
    atomic or molecular states, FELs use a relativistic electron beam as the lasing medium, hence the term free-electron. The pursuit of a high-quantum-energy...
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    employs relativistic electrons as a gain medium instead of using stimulated emission from atomic or molecular excitations. In an FEL, a bunch of electrons passes...
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  • particle beams make them useful for many applications in particle physics (see Particle beam#Applications and Electron-beam technology). Such beams can be...
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    operating ion colliders: the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and in the Low Energy Ion Ring at CERN. CERN also has two electron coolers in its Antimatter...
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    charged particle beam similarly to optical lenses upon a light beam. Electron optics calculations are crucial for the design of electron microscopes and...
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    (help) U.S. patent 4,345,220, High power microwave generator using relativistic electron beam in waveguide drift tube, to Donald J. Sullivan, 1982 U.S. patent...
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    Tests of relativistic energy and momentum are aimed at measuring the relativistic expressions for energy, momentum, and mass. According to special relativity...
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    by crossing a high-energy laser pulse with a relativistic electron beam from a conventional linear electron accelerator, but a further achievement in the...
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    Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is a microscopy technique in which a beam of electrons is transmitted through a specimen to form an image. The specimen...
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    by bending relativistic electrons (i.e. those moving at relativistic speeds) around a circular track. When the electrons are at relativistic speeds, the...
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    nuclei, electrons, and positrons, while others are consistent with jets composed of positron–electron plasma. Trace nuclei swept up in a relativistic positron–electron...
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  • the electron's spin with its electromagnetic properties. Reduction of the Dirac equation for an electron in a magnetic field to its non-relativistic limit...
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    propulsion by thermonuclear microbombs ignited with intense relativistic electron beams", Raumfahrtforschung 15, 208-217 (1971). Winterberg is Hermann...
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  • Special relativity Relativistic wave equations Lorentz factor Relativistic mass Relativistic plasma Relativistic jet Relativistic beaming For example, at...
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    biology. Storage rings can also be used to produce polarized high-energy electron beams through the Sokolov-Ternov effect. The best-known application of storage...
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    for s electrons, which move at relativistic velocities as they penetrate the screening electrons near the core of high-Z atoms. This relativistic increase...
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    The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC /ˈrɪk/) is the first and one of only two operating heavy-ion colliders, and the only spin-polarized proton collider...
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  • microscopy images, electron diffraction patterns including convergent-beam electron diffraction or combinations of these. It has been successful in determining...
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    of astrophysics: see relativistic beaming.) The corresponding wavelengths are related by Identical expressions for relativistic Doppler shift are obtained...
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    the azimuthal angle. Electron beams with quantized orbital angular momentum are also called electron vortex beams. An electron in free space travelling...
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    Electron beam ion trap (EBIT) is an electromagnetic bottle that produces and confines highly charged ions. An EBIT uses an electron beam focused with a...
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  • physics including the production of high-quality relativistic electron beams, energetic proton beams and the development of techniques to measure very...
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    1086/160008. Pereira, N. R.; et al. (1988). "X-rays from Z-pinches on relativistic electron-beam generators". Journal of Applied Physics. 64 (3): R1 – R27. Bibcode:1988JAP...
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    non-relativistic classical mechanics. For instance, the well-known model of the quantum harmonic oscillator uses an explicitly non-relativistic expression...
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