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Additional confirmation of action constant for bremsstrahlung from electron-and-nucleus collisions
1NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, USA.
Abstract:
A new action constant for bremsstrahlung has been derived and published by the author (Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology 6, 1996, 261). Experimental confirmation of that action constant by measurements of the intensity of bremsstrahlung produced by electron beams on pure metal targets, has also been published by the author (Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology 7, 1997, 327-330). From the data in the second paper, additional experimental evidence is obtained for this paper by overcoming the limitations associated with normalization of the number of atoms per unit volume. The dependence of the intensity on the exponent of the atomic number, Z, of the target elements is measured to be 1.32, with a standard deviation of plus or minus 0.05, in close agreement with the predicted value of 4/3.
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