Parametric X-Ray Radiation in Crystals: Theory, Experiment and Applications [Hardcover]

This systematic and comprehensive monograph is devoted to parametric X-ray radiation (PXR). This radiation is generated by the motion of electrons inside a crystal, whereby the emitted photons are diffracted by the crystal and the radiation intensity critically depends on the parameters of the crystal structure. Nowadays PXR is the subject of numerous theoretical and experimental studies throughout the world. The first part of the book is a theoretical treatment of PXR, which includes a new approach to describe the radiation process in crystals. The second part is a survey of PXR experimental results and the possible applications of PXR as a tool for crystal structure analysis and a source of tunable X-ray radiation.

Part I. Theory

1. Electromagnetic radiation from a charged particle in a crystal: Qualitative consideration

1.1 Optical and X-ray Cherenkov radiation in uniform media

1.2 Pseudophoton spectrum of relativistic electron

1.3 Influence of a periodic crystal structure on the pseudophoton spectrum

1.4 PXR and Cherenkov radiation at diffraction conditions

1.5 Limitations of the kinematical theory and multiple scattering of electrons

1.6 Various radiation mechanisms from relativistic electrons

1.7 Pioneering experiments on observation of PXR

2. Radiation of a charged particle in periodic media: Classical theory

2.1 Radiation field representation via solution for Maxwells equations

2.2 Exact solution for PXR from the stack of plates

2.3 Radiation in one-dimensional periodical media: Two-beam approximation

2.4 Kinematic theory of PXR in a thin crystal

2.5 Dynamical diffraction theory and PXR in a bulk l3¦