A comprehensive survey of recent theoretical and experimental progress in the area of electron-photon interaction and dense media. A state-of-the-art discussion of radiation production, with descriptions of new ideas and technologies that enhance the production of X-rays in the form of channelling, transition and parametric X-ray production. Progress in electron beam physics to produce sub-picosecond electron bunches from low-energy linear accelerators make it possible to produce coherent, high brightness, submillimeter radiation and sub-picosecond X-ray pulses. Micro-undulators in the form of bent crystalline structures hold great promise as future X-ray sources.

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Preface. 1. Overview of Radiation from Dense Media; M.L. Ter-Mikayelyan. 2. Channeling Radiation: A Historical Perspective; B. Berman. 3. Parametric X-ray Radiation, Transition Radiation and Bremsstrahlung in X-Ray Region. A Comparative Analysis; A.P Potylitsyn, I.E. Vnukov. 4. X-rays from Relativistic Electrons in Condensed Media; N.N. Nasonov. 5. A Semiclassical Approach to the Radiation Damping Force; X. Artru, G. Bignon. 6. Optical Transition and Diffraction Radiation Diagnostics for Relativistic Charged Particle Beams; R.B. Fiorito. 7. Resonance Transition Radiation; K.A. Ispirian. 8. Coherent Radio-Wave Transition Radiation (CRTR) of Periodic Bunches; E.D. Gazazian, et al. 9. Experiments with Stimulated Transition Radiation; C. Settakorn, H. Wiedemann. 10. Investigations and Properties of PXR; A.V. Shchagin. 11. On the Line Shape of Backward Emitted Parametric X-Radiation; 12. Parametric X-ray Radiation (PXR) Produced in Carbon Single Wall Nanotubes (SWNT) and Fullerites; M.A. Aginian, et al. 13. Bunch Coherence in Parametric X-Ray Radiation; X. Artru, K.A. Ispirian. 14. Coherent Radiation from Relativistic Electrons in Oriented Crystals; N. Shu'ga, V.I. Truten. 15. Particle Acceleration in Crystalline and Nanotube Undulators Taking into Account the Medium Polarization; L.A. Gevorgian, et al. 16. Channeling Radiation from Thick Crystals and at High Electronbunch Charges; H. Genz. 17. Quantum-Mechanical-calculation of the Channeling Radiation Produced in a Periodically Distorted Crystal; R.H. Avakian, et al. 18. Channeling in Nanotubes and Fullerites; N.K. Zhevago, V.I. Glebov. 19. Resonance Tunneling Mechanism of Field Emission from Carbon Nanotubes; K.A. Ispirian, R.A. Melikian. 20. Photon Emission by Ultra-Relativistic Positrons in Crystalline Undulators; W.Krause, et al. 21. Crystalline Micro Undulator; R.O. Avakian, et al. 22. The Influence of Strong Crystalline Fields on QED Processes Investigated Using Diamond Crystals --> Crystals in gamma-Colliders; E. Uggerhoj. 23. Effect of Density Correlations on the Coherency of Relativistic Bunch Radiation; R.V. Tumanian, L.A. Gevorgian. 24. Vibrating Wires Fence as A Negligibly Destructive Beam Profile and Beam Position Monitor; S.G. Arutunian, et al. 25. New Radiation with Non-Linear Dependence on Electron Beam Intensity; A. Aganyants. Index.