Past exam of the symmetry and relativity course of the University of Oxford 2015 1 c iv Solution 2026-10-25
A shorter radiation flash has a broader Fourier transform. From iii, its characteristic angular-frequency bandwidth isAt fixed bending radius this scales as as . The standard synchrotron critical angular frequency makes the same scaling explicit:A periodically circulating electron produces harmonics of its revolution frequency. The very large harmonic range, of order , forms the familiar effectively continuous broad synchrotron spectrum at ordinary detector resolution. The result concerns the intrinsic spectrum of the radiation, not merely the slow envelope imposed by a long incoherent bunch. Ordinary frequency is ; mixing cycles per second with radians per second would introduce a spurious factor of into photon-energy estimates.[ref]
Synchrotron Radiation in the Geant4 Physics Reference Manual by Geant4 Collaboration. critical-energy formula and validity discussion, critical harmonic number