PHOTON EMISSION BY AN ULTRA-RELATIVISTIC PARTICLE CHANNELING IN A PERIODICALLY BENT CRYSTAL

Abstract

This paper is devoted to a detailed analysis of the new type of undulator radiation generated by an ultra-relativistic charged particle channeling along a crystal plane, which is periodically bent by a transverse acoustic wave, as well as to the conditions limiting the observation of this phenomenon. This mechanism makes feasible the generation of electromagnetic radiation, both spontaneous and stimulated, emitted in a wide range of the photon energies, from X- up to γ-rays.