The distribution in energy and angle of bremsstrahlung from the scattering of electrons by static nuclear charge and magnetic-moment distributions is calculated in Born approximation. As expected, large reductions from point-nucleus cross sections are obtained for bremsstrahlung involving large momentum transfers, and the effects of a magnetic-moment distribution are important for wide-angle bremsstrahlung. Integrations were carried out numerically by computer, using form factors determined by elastic electron scattering, for some representative cases.

• Received 9 November 1964

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.137.B1500