1st Compton X-rays

Early on Sunday morning the CBS team (a collaboration including scientists from Daresbury Lab, Rutherford Appleton Lab, Cockcroft Institute,  Max Born Institute, Manchester University and UCL) working together with the whole ALICE team successfully detected short pulse X-rays generated by interacting the multi-terawatt laser beam with the compressed relativistic electron beam of the ALICE accelerator.  Both spatial and temporal overlap of the micron sized beams was required for this achievement.

This work was supported by STFC and the NWDA through the NW Science Fund.