When the orbit of a high energy electron(positron)
with energy
is bent
by a magnetic field B or by an electric field
with the curvature radius
,
the critical energy of synchrotron radiation is given by
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where
is the Compton wavelength,
Tesla is Schwinger's critical
field and
V/m.
The energy spectrum of emitted photons is given by the
Sokolov-Ternov formula .
(Radiation angle is not included in CAIN.
All the photons are emitted forward.) The number of photons per unit time
in the interval (x,x+dx) of the energy fraction
is
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Here,
is the fine structure constant and
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is the final electron energy,
the modified Bessel function and
is its integral:
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