Projectile Bremsstrahlung

The various types of accelerators offer the possibility of applying a great variety of projectiles of different energies. The most frequently used projectiles are protons, deuterons and a particles. Some features of the reactions induced by these partieles are summarized in Table 12.4. Neutrons may be produced indirectly by nuclear reactions, y rays are generated as bremsstrahlung in electron accelerators, and heavy ions are available in heavy-ion accelerators. 

Fig. 6. The Direct Capture reaction d(p, 7)3He to form 3He in its ground state. The proton projectile (shown as a plane wave) radiates away a bremsstrahlung photon to be captured in a valence orbital around the 2D...

Charged particle Bremsstrahlung is proportional to (Zi/Mi), is small for heavy projectiles. 

Projectile Bremsstrahlung (PB) of the bombarding particles slowed down in close collisions with the matrix nuclei. 

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