title: Backscattering of an intense laser beam by an electron.
abstract: We present a novel, simple asymptotic expansion for the spectrum of radiation that is backscattered from a laser by a counterpropagating (or copropagating) electron. The solutions are presented in such a way that they explicitly show the relative merit of using an intense laser and of an energetic electron beam in x-ray production in the single particle regime. Simple scaling laws are given.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-2104, USA.
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Y Y
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.forename: Donald P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Umstadter
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kowalczyk