Issue
J. Phys. Colloques
Volume 49, Number C1, Mars 1988
IAU Colloquium N° 102 on UV and X-ray Spectroscopy of Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas
Page(s) C1-339 - C1-342
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:1988173
IAU Colloquium N° 102 on UV and X-ray Spectroscopy of Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas

J. Phys. Colloques 49 (1988) C1-339-C1-342

DOI: 10.1051/jphyscol:1988173

AXIAL OBSERVATION OF X-RAY SPECTRA FROM A BEAM-FOIL SOURCE

J.M. LAMING1, J.D. SILVER1, R. BARNSLEY2, J. DUNN2, K.D. EVANS2 et N. J. PEACOCK3

1  University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, GB-Oxford OX1 3PU, Great-Britain
2  University of Leicester, Department of Physics, University Road, GB-Leicester LE1 7RH, Great-Britain
3  Culham Laboratory, GB-Abingdon OX14 3DB, Oxon, Great-Britain


Abstract
New observations of x-ray spectra from foil-excited heavy ion beams are reported. By observing the target in a direction along the beam axis, an improvement in spectral resolution, δλ/ λ, by about a factor of two is achieved, due to the reduced Doppler broadening in this geometry.