Synchrotron emission is an important process in Galactic dynamics and a potentially confusing foreground for cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation observations. Though the mechanism of synchrotron emission is well understood, the details for the Galaxy and many external sources is not well characterized. Quality maps at multiple frequencies are lacking but needed for a full understanding ...

Gamma-ray burst prompt emission is believed to originate from electrons accelerated in a highly relativistic outflow. Internal shocks, which are a result of collisions between shells ejected by the central engine, are the leading candidates for electron acceleration. While synchrotron radiation is generally invoked to interpret prompt gamma-ray emission within the internal shock model, the sync...

Although LEP was designed to allow both betatron and synchrotron injection, only betatron accumulation has been used up to now. During 1994 tests were made of injection in synchrotron phase space. Results are presented from these machine studies which show that for both 4 bunch and 8 bunch pretzel injection, this form of injection is a more efficient way of accumulating LEP beams. The use of sy...

The recent paper by Curis & Bénazeth (2001) considers modeling of the experimental distribution of the absorption coefficient. As a preamble to this, the authors consider the exact law of the quotient of two independent normal random variables. They claim to have derived the exact law, it being a ‘quite long and complex’ expression not given in the paper. In fact, the problem of the quotient of...

It has been argued that blobs ejected from advection-dominated accretion flow through the accretion-ejection instability undergo expansion due to their high internal energy density. The expanding blobs interact with their surroundings and form strong shock, which accelerates a group of electrons to be relativistic. Then flares are formed. This model has advances in two aspects: shock accelerati...

vii Chapter 1 The Fermilab Tevatron 1 1.1 Tevatron as a Collider Synchrotron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Luminosity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 Synchrotron Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.4 Outline of This Dissertation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Chapter 2 Particle Motion in an Ideal Synchrotron 12 2.1 Quadrupole M...

We study the modifications of synchrotron radiation of charges in a storage ring as they are cooled. The pair correlation lengths between the charges are manifest in the synchrotron radiation and coherence effects exist for wavelengths longer than the coherence lengths between the charges. Therefore, the synchrotron radiation can be used as a diagnostic tool to determine the state (gas, liquid,...

YNCHROTRON RADIATION sources have proven to be immensely important tools throughout the sciences and engineering. In consequence, synchrotron radiation usage continues to grow, assuring the need for additional synchrotron radiation machines well into the foreseeable future. Storage rings, the basis for all major existing hard X-ray synchrotron facilities, have inherent limitations that constrai...

In a recent paper, we calculate spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for 1425 Fermi blazars, classifications of low synchrotron peak sources (LSPs) if log νp(Hz) ≤ 14.0, intermediate synchrotron peak sources (ISPs) if 14.0 < log νp(Hz) ≤ 15.3, and high synchrotron peak sources (HSPs) if log νp(Hz) > 15.3 are made based on 999 logarithms of synchrotron peak frequencies with known redshift, and w...