beamstrahlung

Meaning

Noun

• The radiation from one beam of charged particles in a storage ring or linear collider caused by its interaction with the electromagnetic field of the other beam.

Origin

• , coined by John Rees in 1978. "Limitations on Performance of e+ e- Storage Rings and
• Linear Colliding Beam Systems at High Energy," http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C781015/pdf/009.pdf