Yair Segev coauthored an experiment increasing molecular-beam brightness by suppressing a shock-wave mechanism. The study connects a source's gas dynamics with the useful directed particle flux, rather than assuming that a higher source input always gives a brighter beam.[ref]
Molecular beam brightening by shock-wave suppression by Yair Segev and others. author list and the described study’s abstract or introductory account
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