Planar channeling radiation from 32 MeV electrons channeled in quartz has for the first time been measured at the radiation source ELBE. The theory of channeling radiation was applied for the assignment of the observed spectra to the crystal planes. Calculations of the continuum potentials, transverse electron states, transition energies, and radiation intensities have been performed for selected planes of quartz. Specific properties of the hexagonal binary quartz crystal influencing the generation of channeling radiation are discussed.

Date Published: 23 May 2007
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 6634, International Conference on Charged and Neutral Particles Channeling Phenomena II, 66340S (23 May 2007); doi: 10.1117/12.741904

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6634:
International Conference on Charged and Neutral Particles Channeling Phenomena II
Sultan B. Dabagov, Editor(s)