| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 74, Number 4, May 2006
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 637 - 643 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, optics, acoustics, heat transfer, classical mechanics, and fluid dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10570-7 | |
| Published online | 14 April 2006 | |
Limits on collective X-ray scattering imposed by coherence
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California P.O. Box 808, CA 94551, USA
Received:
1
December
2005
Accepted:
17
March
2006
We present the calculation of the threshold for observation of collective plasmon modes in a solid density plasma probed with a partially coherent X-ray source. We find that at lower electron
densities (
) de-coherence effects pose a stringent limit to the effective divergence as well as bandwidth of the probe source.
These results are more restrictive than the usual condition that the probed scale-length must be larger than the screening distance in the plasma.
PACS: 42.25.Kb – Coherence / 52.25.Os – Emission, absorption, and scattering of electromagnetic radiation / 52.70.La – X-ray and gamma-ray measurements
© EDP Sciences, 2006
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