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Enhancing and Shaping Radiation from High-Energy Particles with Nanophotonics

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This lecture explores the design of nanostructured materials to enhance and tailor radiation from high-energy particles using engineered nanophotonic structures. It covers topics such as nanophotonics, light-matter interactions, free electron physics, x-ray imaging, and photonic computing. The speaker presents a framework to model, enhance, and optimize radiation from free electrons and other high-energy particles interacting with nanophotonic structures. Experimental setups to record spectrally-resolved light emission from free electrons and the enhancement of cathodoluminescence and scintillation from x-rays are discussed.

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Chemistry

Physical chemistry: Spectroscopy

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Radiology: Topics in radiology

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Scintillator

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Scintillation counter

A scintillation counter is an instrument for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation by using the excitation effect of incident radiation on a scintillating material, and detecting the resultant light pulses. It consists of a scintillator which generates photons in response to incident radiation, a sensitive photodetector (usually a photomultiplier tube (PMT), a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera, or a photodiode), which converts the light to an electrical signal and electronics to process this signal.

X-ray tube

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