Alternative interpretation of the double atomic-field bremsstrahlung experiment

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Abstract
A recent experiment reported a two-order-of-magnitude enhancement of the cross section for double atomic-field bremsstrahlung when compared to various theoretical formulations. In this paper we propose to explain the observed coincidence rate in terms of the coherent emission of two thick-target bremsstrahlung photons from the Mylar vacuum window by electrons elastically scattered in the target. The photon energy dependence of the coincidence rate predicted by this thick-target double bremsstrahlung (TTDB) model is estimated and compared to the previous experimental results for a gold target. Fairly good agreement is obtained with both the order of magnitude of the coincidence rate and its photon energy dependence, even though a crude approximation is used to estimate the TTDB distribution from the better known thick-target single bremsstrahlung spectrum.

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