Bremsstrahlung (German for "braking radiation") is a type of electromagnetic radiation emitted by high-temperature plasmas -- where atoms are ionized -- when free electrons interact with the electric field surrounding atomic nuclei.
Definition: bremsstrahlung: "braking radiation", the main way very fast charged particles lose energy when traveling through matter. Radiation is emitted when charged particles are accelerated.
Bremsstrahlung
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BREMSSTRAHLUNG - X-rays produced when fast electrons pass through matter. Bremsstrahlung (German for "slowing-down radiation") energy varies continuously from 0 up to the energy of the incident electron.
Bremsstrahlung
(a) X-rays emitted when fast electrons are slowed down violently, as when electrons strike the target in an x-ray tube. The word translates as 'braking radiation'.
[edit] Bremsstrahlung losses in quasineutral, isotropic plasmas
The ions undergoing fusion in many systems will essentially never occur alone but will be mixed with electrons that in aggregate neutralize the ions' bulk electrical charge and form ...
Bremsstrahlung
This mechanism operates in all X-ray sources. It originates from the acceleration of electrons in coulomb collisions with other electrons and with ions and nuclei.
Neutrino Bremsstrahlung
The reaction in which an electron scatters from a nucleus, emitting a neutrino-antineutrino pair. [H76]
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For instance, ionization must be balanced by recombination, bremsstrahlung by absorption, etc.
Bremsstrahlung Radiation that is emitted when a free electron is deflected by an ion, but the free electron is not captured by the ion. Generally, it is a type of radiation emitted when high energy electrons are accelerated.
Primary cosmic rays slowed down in the atmosphere emit bremsstrahlung photons of high energy. Each of these photons produces secondary electrons which generate more photons and the process continues until the available energy is absorbed.
This gas is very hot, between 107K and 108K, and hence emits X-rays in the form of bremsstrahlung and atomic line emission. The total mass of the gas is greater than that of the galaxies by roughly a factor of two.
This very hot gas emits X-rays by thermal bremsstrahlung emission, and line emission from metals (in astronomy, 'metals' often means all elements expect hydrogen and helium).
These systems use radioisotopes that produce low energy beta particles or sometimes alpha particles of varying energies. Low energy beta particles are needed to prevent the production of high energy penetrating Bremsstrahlung radiation that would ...
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