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The essential features of synchrotron radiation: an elementary approach

Giorgio Margaritondo
2001
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Synchrotron light is usually treated with a rather complicated electrodynamics formalism. However. its basic properties can be easily understood with a simple approach based on the classical emission of electromagnetic radiation by an accelerated charge in a constant or periodic magnetic field, on a combination of relativistic phenomena (Lorentz contraction and Doppler effect) and on simple Fourier-theorem arguments. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science BM All rights reserved.

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