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We present new results regarding the features of high energy photon emission by an electron beam of 178 GeV penetrating a 1.5 cm thick single Si crystal aligned at the Strings-Of-Strings (SOS) orientation. This concerns a special case of…

A systematic investigation of hard thermal photon spectra from central ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions is presented with emphasis on the effects of bremsstrahlung processes in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Bremsstrahlung photon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Daniel Steffen

In collisions between heavy ions at ultra-relativistic energies the participating protons lose energy, which is converted into new particles. As the protons slow down, they emit bremsstrahlung radiation. The yield and angular distribution…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-19 Sigurd Nese , Joakim Nystrand

ATLAS and CMS have each reported a modest diphoton excess consistent with the decay of a broad resonance at ~ 750 GeV. We show how this signal can arise in a weakly coupled theory comprised solely of narrow width particles. In particular,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-29 Haipeng An , Clifford Cheung , Yue Zhang

Fully relativistic treatment of the electron-atom and positron-atom bremsstrahlung is reported. The calculation is based on the partial-wave expansion of the Dirac scattering states in an external atomic field. A comparison of the electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 V. A. Yerokhin , A. Surzhykov , R. Märtin , S. Tashenov , G. Weber

Relative yields have been measured in the 40-130 MeV bremsstrahlung induced reactions of 59Co. The experiments have been performed with the beam from the electron linear accelerator LINAC-200 using the activation and off-line {\gamma}-ray…

A new model of bremsstrahlung emission in the scattering of light nuclei is constructed with main focus on strict cluster formulation of nuclear processes. Analysis is performed in frameworks of the folding approximation of the formalism…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-11 S. P. Maydanyuk , V. S. Vasilevsky

The polarization of bremsstrahlung photon in the processes $ee^\pm\to (e\gamma)e^\pm$, and $ep\to (e\gamma)p$ is calculated for peripheral kinematics, in the high energy limit where the cross section does not decrease with the incident…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-22 S. Bakmaev , Yu. M. Bystritskiy , E. A. Kuraev , E. Tomasi-Gustafsson

We present a fully relativistic calculation of the bremsstrahlung emitted by twisted electrons propagating in the field of bare heavy nuclei. The electron-nucleus interaction is accounted for to all orders in the nuclear binding strength…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 M. E. Groshev , V. A. Zaytsev , V. A. Yerokhin , V. M. Shabaev

A detection technique of ultra-high energy cosmic rays, complementary to the fluorescence technique, would be the use of the molecular Bremsstrahlung radiation emitted by low-energy electrons left after the passage of the showers in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-26 I. Al Samarai , O. Deligny , D. Lebrun , A. Letessier-Selvon , F. Salamida

A comparison of the inclusive photon energy spectrum in the radiative decay $\BGAMAXS$, measured recently by the CLEO collaboration, with the standard model is presented, using a $B$-meson wave function model and improving earlier…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-05 A. Ali , C. Greub

The results of the experiments on recording hard gamma radiation and measurements of its angular distribution at the initial stage of a laboratory high-voltage atmospheric discharge are presented. The experiments were performed on an ERG…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 A. V. Agafonov , A. V. Oginov , A. A. Rodionov , V. A. Ryabov , V. A. Chechin , K. V. Shpakov

A measurement of the 20Na beta-delayed alpha spectrum with a high-granularity set-up has allowed the decay scheme to be revised on several points. Three new transitions of low intensity are found at low alpha-particle energy. An R-matrix…

The electric quadrupole transitions between $0^+$, $2^+$, and $4^+$ states in $^{12}$C are investigated in a $3\alpha$ model. The three-body wave functions are obtained by means of the hyperspherical adiabatic expansion method, and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 E. Garrido , A. S. Jensen , D. V. Fedorov

We study channeling radiation from electron beams with energies under 100 MeV. We introduce a phenomenological model of dechanneling, correct non-radiative transition rates from thermal scattering, and discuss in detail the population…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-12-12 Tanaji Sen , Christopher Lynn

We have performed a measurement of the K^+ -> pi^+ pi^0 gamma decay and have observed 2 X 10^4 events. The best fit to the decay spectrum gives a branching ratio for direct photon emission of (4.7\pm0.8\pm0.3) X 10^{-6} in the pi^+ kinetic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 E787 Collaboration

The theory of bremsstrahlung $e \to e\gamma$ by extremely high energy electrons passing through ordinary matter has been qualitatively incomplete. We revisit the suppression of bremsstrahlung by the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM) effect,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-08 Peter Arnold , Joshua Bautista , Omar Elgedawy , Shahin Iqbal

A new approach is presented to determine the proton-nucleus interactions from the analysis of the accompanying photon bremsstrahlung. We study the scattering of $p + ^{208}{\rm Pb}$ at the proton incident energies of 140 and 145~MeV, and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-26 Sergei P. Maydanyuk , Peng-Ming Zhang

The bremsstrahlung spectrum of photons accompanying $W$ pair production depends on the decay width of the unstable $W$ bosons. The dependence arises from the interference between emission at different stages of the production and decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 A. P. Chapovsky , V. A. Khoze , W. J. Stirling

In this report, the anomalous emissions, centered on the one half transition energy 39.76/2 keV, are observed from the long-lived Mossbauer state of 103mRh excited by bremsstrahlung exposure. Strong coupling with identical nuclei in Rh…

General Physics · Physics 2009-08-06 Yao Cheng , Bing Xia