2016/10/28 by D. H. Jakubaßa-Amundsen, D. H. Jakubassa-Amundsen, Jakubassa-Amundsen, D. H.
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear physics research studies #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics #physics.atom-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1610.09137
8 pages, 3 figures
openalex publication_date 2016/10/28 · openalex created_date 2016/11/04 · arxiv created 2021/09/17 · arxiv updated 2021/09/20 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Inspired by the work of Pratt and coworkers on a sum rule for the polarization correlations in electron bremsstrahlung when the outgoing electron is not observed, we derive the corresponding sum rule for the elementary process of bremsstrahlung. This sum rule is valid for arbitrary electron wavefunctions provided the electron is emitted in the reaction plane. The numerical evaluation of this sum rule within the Dirac partial-wave theory for bare inert spin-zero nuclei and collision energies in the range of 1-10 MeV reveals violations for high nuclear charge. Such violations serve as a measure of the inaccuracies in the bremsstrahlung calculations.