Electrons as accelerated thermometers

Disinfection of Clinical Thermometers I. Oral Thermometers

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Nuclear Thermometers

In intermediate energy nuclear collisions (E/A~50MeV), the nuclei collide and compress, forming what is called a compound nucleus. As the compound nucleus cools and expands, it breaks apart into multiple nuclei in a process called multi-fragmentation. These fragments then begin to cool by emitting small nuclei. The final products of decay are then observed in detectors. The populations of nucle...

Accelerated Electrons in Cassiopeia A: Thermal and Electromagnetic Effects

We consider in more detail a model previously proposed for the hard X-ray (> 10 keV) emission observed from the supernova remnant Cas A, whereby electrons are accelerated by lower-hybrid waves and radiate bremsstrahlung. We consider both cold and thermal plasma limits of the modified two-stream instability that generates the lower-hybrid waves, and by studying time dependent ionization balance ...

Imaging laser-wakefield-accelerated electrons using miniature magnetic quadrupole lenses

Anisotropy of electrons accelerated by a high-intensity laser pulse

We describe a realistic model for a focused high-intensity laser pulse in three dimensions. Relativistic dynamics of an electron submitted to such pulse is described by equations of motion with ponderomotive potential depending on a single free parameter in the problem, which we refer to as the “asymmetry parameter”. It is shown that the asymmetry parameter can be chosen to provide quantitative...