 Touschek effect (source code)

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= Touschek effect
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= Touschek scattering
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Intra-bunch Coulomb scattering can transfer transverse momentum into longitudinal momentum changes large enough to exceed a storage ring's accepted momentum range. This produces particle losses and a density-dependent contribution to the <beam lifetime>.

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