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Vol. 7, Issue 2, 026002 (2025)

Attosecond time-resolved measurements of electron and photon beams with a variable polarization X-band radiofrequency deflector at an X-ray free-electron laser

Eduard Prat^1,*, Zheqiao Geng¹, Christoph Kittel^1,2, Alexander Malyzhenkov^3,4..., Fabio Marcellini¹, Sven Reiche¹, Thomas Schietinger¹ and Paolo Craievich^1,*|Show fewer author(s)

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¹Paul Scherrer Institut, Center for Accelerator Science and Engineering, Villigen, Switzerland

²University of Malta, Msida, Malta

³CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

⁴Swiss International Institute Lausanne, Prilly, Switzerland

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Eduard Prat, Zheqiao Geng, Christoph Kittel, Alexander Malyzhenkov, Fabio Marcellini, Sven Reiche, Thomas Schietinger, Paolo Craievich, "Attosecond time-resolved measurements of electron and photon beams with a variable polarization X-band radiofrequency deflector at an X-ray free-electron laser," Adv. Photon. 7, 026002 (2025) Copy Citation Text

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Eduard Prat, Zheqiao Geng, Christoph Kittel, Alexander Malyzhenkov, Fabio Marcellini, Sven Reiche, Thomas Schietinger, Paolo Craievich, "Attosecond time-resolved measurements of electron and photon beams with a variable polarization X-band radiofrequency deflector at an X-ray free-electron laser," Adv. Photon. 7, 026002 (2025)

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