Polarization Bremsstrahlung

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Polarization Bremsstrahlung Effect in Particle Collisions

   • M. Ya. Amus’ya, V. M. Buimistrov, B. A. Zon, V. N. Tsytovich

   Pages 1-25

3. Polarization Bremsstrahlung in Distant Collisions

   • V. N. Tsytovich

   Pages 27-54

4. Fluctuations in Ideal Gases and Plasmas and Bremsstrahlung

   • V. N. Tsytovich

   Pages 55-68

5. Polarization Bremsstrahlung of Nonrelativistic Charged Particles on Atoms

   • V. M. Buimistrov

   Pages 69-96

6. Polarization Bremsstrahlung of Relativistic Charged Particles on Atoms

   • V. A. Astapenko, V. M. Buimistrov, Yu. A. Krotov

   Pages 97-121

7. Polarization Bremsstrahlung on Ions and Atoms in Plasmas

   • V. A. Astapenko, V. M. Buimistrov, Yu. A. Krotov, V. N. Tsytovich

   Pages 123-148

8. Polarization Bremsstrahlung on Many-Electron Atoms and in Atomic Collisions

   • M. Ya. Amus’ya

   Pages 149-192

9. Polarization Bremsstrahlung Involving Positrons, µ-Mesons, and Nuclear Particles

   • M. Ya. Amus’ya

   Pages 193-212

10. Polarization Bremsstrahlung in Collisions of Relativistic Atoms and Relativistic Particles with Atoms

    • M. Ya. Amus’ya, A. V. Korol’, A. V. Solov’ev

    Pages 213-244

11. Polarization Bremsstrahlung in Collisions of Electrons with Atoms and Laser Breakdown in Gases

    • B. A. Zon

    Pages 245-259

12. Polarization Radiation Mechanisms in Atomic Collisions

    • A. B. Kukushkin, V. S. Lisitsa

    Pages 261-291

13. Photon-Plasmon Transitions as a Mechanism for Polarization Quenching of Metastable Levels of Atoms in Plasmas

    • E. B. Kleiman, I. M. Oiringel

    Pages 293-303

14. Nonpolarization Bremsstrahlung of Electrons in Static Potentials

    • V. I. Gervids, V. I. Kogan

    Pages 305-339

15. Conclusion

    • M. Ya. Amus’ya, V. M. Buimistrov, B. A. Zon, V. I. Kogan, V. N. Tsytovich

    Pages 341-345

16. Back Matter

    Pages 347-370

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This book was written by a group of authors and provides a systematic dis­ cussion of questions related to bremsstrahlung in many-particle systems. A number of new results have recently been obtained in this area which require a fundamental revision of the previously existing traditional concepts of bremsstrahlung. This ap­ plies both to complicated atoms containing a large number of electrons and to the additional bremsstrahlung in a system of many particles forming a medium. In fact, the traditional approach was rigorously applicable only either to isolated "structureless" particles (e. g. , to the emission of an electron on a proton) or to par­ ticles radiating in the limit of extremely high frequencies. Polarization effects (either polarization of an atom itself by an incident particle or polarization of the medium surrounding an atomic particle) have a significant effect in the practically important optical and x-ray frequency ranges and sometimes even predominate. The first effect has come to be known as polarization atomic (or dynamic) bremsstrahlung and the second, as polarization transition bremsstrahlung. The au­ thors of this book use a single term: polarization bremsstrahlung. It seems that, in contrast to earlier ideas on the subject, bremsstrahlung during collisions of heavy incident particles with atoms is by no means small and is entirely caused by polar­ ization effects.

• Plasma
• atomic collision
• collision
• laser
• particles

• Institute of General Physics, Moscow, Russia

  V. N. Tsytovich

• Presidium of Irkutsk Scientific Center, Irkutsk, Russia

  I. M. Oiringel

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