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abstract:
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Reviews the main characteristics of the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF), and gives a short discussion of the experimental program to be carried out with it. This program will utilize the unique possibility offered by the ATF, of providing a high brightness electron bunch, synchronized with high power laser pulses. Part of the program will be based on the study of the interaction between the laser radiation and the electrons, in particular laser acceleration of particle beams, and the nonlinear dynamics of electrons in a strong electromagnetic field. Another part will utilize the high brightness of the electron beam to study the physics of free electron lasers in the high gain regime, with the aim of establishing a basis for the development of FELs in the soft X-ray region. (14 References).
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