bremsstrahlung

See also: Bremsstrahlung

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bremsstrahlung (“braking or deceleration radiation”), which had been coined in German by Arnold Sommerfeld from bremsen (“to brake”) +‎ Strahlung (“radiation”) in 1909, and was first used in English by Arthur Edward Ruark and Harold Urey in 1930.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɛm.ʃtrɑ.ləŋ/, /ˈbɹɛms.ʃtrɑ.ləŋ/, /ˈbɹɛm.strɑ.ləŋ/, /-lʊŋ/, /-lʌŋ/

Noun

bremsstrahlung (countable and uncountable, plural bremsstrahlungs)

2. (physics) The electromagnetic radiation produced by the deceleration of a charged particle, such as an electron, when it is deflected by another charged particle, such as an atomic nucleus.

Derived terms

• beamstrahlung
• gluonstrahlung

 

Translations

Translations

• German: Bremsstrahlung (de) f
• Hindi: अवमंदक विकिरण (avmandak vikiraṇ)

See also

• synchrotron radiation