Multiphoton effects in coherent radiation spectra

Abstract

At measurements of gamma-radiation spectra from ultra-relativistic electrons in periodic structures, pileup of events in the calorimeter may cause significant deviation of the detector signal from the classically evaluated spectrum. That requires appropriate resummation of multiphoton contributions. We describe the resummation procedure for the photon spectral intensity and for the photon multiplicity spectrum, and apply it to the study of spectra of coherent radiation with an admixture of incoherent component. Impact of multiphoton effects on the shape of the radiation spectrum is investigated. The limit of high photon multiplicity for coherent radiation is explored. A method for reconstruction of the underlying single-photon spectrum from the multiphoton one is proposed.PACS numbers: 29.40.Vj, 61.85.+p, 05.40.Fb

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