Werner Nakel: The Elementary Process of Bremsstrahlung

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We were writing a book entitled

The Elementary Process of Bremsstrahlung

Eberhard Haug
Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik
Universität Tübingen, Germany

Werner Nakel
Physikalisches Institut
Universität Tübingen, Germany

World Scientific Publishing Co.

The book is based on a review article on the elementary process of bremsstrahlung (W. Nakel, Phys. Rep. 243(1994) 317). The aim of the book is to represent the theoretical and experimental developments in the elementary bremsstrahlung process, i.e., the triply differential cross section, and the status of the comparison and extent of agreement between them. It is shown how far the theory proceeded in the effort to describe the coupling of the radiation field to the electron-atom system. Although the main importance is attached to electron-atom bremsstrahlung we also discuss electron-electron bremsstrahlung, electron-positron bremsstrahlung and further bremsstrahlung processes.

The book is mainly addressed to graduate students and is therefore endowed with classical and semiclassical considerations on the bremsstrahlung process and with problems to be solved. But it will also be of interest to physicists actively engaged in research since it summarizes and discusses the extensive theoretical work widespread in the original literature. Last but not least, the book is addressed to those readers who may want to get a more general view on this subject since bremsstrahlung is related to the fundamentals of theory and appears in many branches of physics and in technical applications.

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