A method has been developed for the solution of the resistivity and IP modeling problem for one or more two‐dimensional inhomogeneities buried in a space for which the Dirichlet Green’s function is known. The boundary‐value problem reduces to a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind which is parametrically a function of a spatial wavenumber. Using the method of moments, the integral equation is solved for a number of values of the wavenumber. An inverse Fourier transform is then performed in order to obtain the electric potential at any point of interest. The method agrees well with both experimental results and other numerical techniques.

We have observed the interference of optical diffraction radiation (ODR) and optical transition radiation (OTR) produced by the interaction of a relativistic electron beam with a micromesh foil and a mirror. The production of forward directed ODR from electrons passing through the holes and wires of the mesh and their separate interactions with backward OTR from the mirror are analyzed with the help of a simulation code. By careful choice of the micromesh properties, mesh-mirror spacing, observation wavelength and filter band pass, the interference of the ODR produced from the unperturbed electrons passing through the open spaces of the mesh and OTR from the mirror are observable above a broad incoherent background from interaction of the heavily scattered electrons passing through the mesh wires. These interferences (ODTRI) are sensitive to the beam divergence and can be used to directly diagnose this parameter. We compare experimental divergence values obtained using ODTRI, conventional OTRI, for the case when front foil scattering is negligible, and computed values obtained from transport code calculations and multiple screen beam size measurements. We obtain good agreement in all cases.

We have observed the spatial distribution of coherent or resonance transition radiation (RTR) in the soft-x-ray region of the spectrum (1 -3 keV). Resonance transition radiators were constructed and tested at two accelerators using electron-beam energies ranging from 50 to 228 MeV. These radiators emitted soft x rays in a circularly symmetrical annulus with a half-angle divergence of 2.5-9.0 mrad. The angle of peak emission was found to increase with electron-beam energy, in contrast to the incoherent case, for which the angle of emission varied inversely with electron-beam energy. By careful selection of foil thickness and spacing, one may design radiators whose angle of emission varies over a range of chargedparticle energies. A particular RTR mode (r =m =1) was found to give a sharp annular ring that becomes more accentuated as the number of foils is increased. The RTR effect has application in particle detection, beam diagnostics, x-ray source brightness enhancement, and x-ray free-electron-laser emission.

The IP response and the apparent resistivity resulting from a buried current pole in the presence of a stratigraphic target and a three‐dimensional target have been studied. The targets were modeled using a layered model to simulate the stratigraphic target and a buried sphere model to simulate the three‐dimensional target. The results show that there is a substantial increase in the response of the target measured at the surface for current electrode depths of greater than half the depth to the top of the target. A larger anomalous response is of particular importance when dealing with deeply buried targets from which little or no response is measured using conventional surface electrode methods. Furthermore, the results indicate that a survey around a drill hole containing a current electrode can be used to outline mineralization in the immediate vicinity of the drill hole. Some empirical observations resulting from our study are presented which relate the lateral offset of the target from the drill hole and its depth to characteristics of the anomaly pattern as measured on the surface.

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