A hardware system that acquires and stores a large buffer of bunch-by-bunch 16-bit data has been realized. A high resolution (up to 16-bit) analog-to-digital converter (ADC), or bank of ADCs, samples the analog signal at the bunch frequency. The digitized data is fed into a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), which contains an interface to a bank of Double Data Rate SDRAM (DDR) type memory. W...

We present a simple solution to the controversy over periodicity in the ages of terrestrial impact craters and the epochs of mass extinctions of species. The first evidence for a 28.4 million year cycle in catastrophic impacts on Earth was presented in 1984. Our re-examination of this earlier Fourier power spectrum analysis reveals that the rounding of the impact crater data distorted the Monte...

Twelve introgressed oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) progenies of Nigerian dura x Deli dura were evaluated for bunch yield, yield attributes, bunch quality components and vegetative characters at the Malaysian Palm Oil Board Research Station, in Keratong, Pahang, Malaysia. Analysis of variance revealed significant to highly significant genotypic differences, indicating sufficient genetic variabilit...

We report subpicosecond electro-optic measurements of the length of individual relativistic electron bunches. The longitudinal electron-bunch shape is encoded electro-optically on to the spectrum of a chirped laser pulse. The electron-bunch length is determined by analyzing individual laser-pulse spectra obtained with and without the presence of an electron bunch. Since the length of the chirpe...

We present single-shot measurements of the longitudinal bunch profile from a laser-wakefield accelerator with sub-fs resolution, based on detection of coherent transition radiation in a broad spectral range. A previously developed phase retrieval algorithm enables reconstruction of the bunch profile without prior assumptions about its shape. In this study, a variable-length gas target is used t...

Recent advances in laser wakefield acceleration demonstrated the generation of extremely short (with a duration of a few femtoseconds) relativistic electron bunches with relatively low (of the order of couple of percent) energy spread. In this article we study the dynamics of such bunches in drift space (vacuum) and in channel-guided laser wakefields. Analytical solutions were found for the tra...

The generation of an isolated attosecond gamma-ray pulse utilizing Compton backscattering of a relativistic electron bunch has been investigated. The energy of the electron bunch is modulated while the electron bunch interacts with a co-propagating few-cycle CEP (carrier envelope phase)-locked laser in a single-period wiggler. The energy-modulated electron bunch interacts with a counter-propaga...

A femtosecond electron bunch is essential for the observation of ultrafast phenomena. In order to improve the time resolution of pulse radiolysis and ultrafast electron diffraction (UED), that involve the use of an ultrashort electron bunch and ultrashort light, a femtosecond photocathode RF gun was investigated experimentally. The bunch length due to space-charge and RF effects in the gun was ...

Nonlinear dynamics of the one-dimensional ultrarelativistic bunch of electrons,moving in cold plasma,is considered in multiple scales perturbative approach.A square root of the inverse Lorentz factor of the bunch electrons is taken as a small parameter.Bunch electrons momenta is changed in the first approximation.In the underdense plasma and for the model example of the combined bunch the selfa...

We estimate the short-range wake elds in the W-band active matrix linac of a 5-TeV collider, and demonstrate that for the assumed 60-pC bunch c harge and 10-m rms bunch length they are acceptable. Abstract. We estimate the short-range wake elds in the W-band active matrix linac of a 5-TeV collider, and demonstrate that for the assumed 60-pC bunch c harge and 10-m rms bunch length they are accep...