The team has now demonstrated that bremsstrahlung measurements can discriminate the combined Sr-90/Y-90 beta emission from gamma radiation emitted by caesium-137 (another high-yield fission product) ...

The last example has a fantastically German name: "bremsstrahlung," which translates roughly as "braking radiation." Once again, this form of radiation requires high energies and charged particles.

This bremsstrahlung radiation is like that created in the bellies of particle accelerators as they whip charged particles around near the speed of light.

When they collide with atoms in the air they release gamma rays in a process known by the German word bremsstrahlung, or “braking radiation,” referring to the electrons slamming into atoms ...

Gamma rays, an electromagnetic pulse, and a huge UV halo, ... As these electrons slow back down or get forced to travel on curved paths, they lose energy in the form of bremsstrahlung radiation.

This produces Bremsstrahlung radiation – breakingbraking X-rays – that can be directed to film or an X-ray intensifier screen that fluoresces in visible light when being struck by X-rays.

This friction reaches a maximum at an electron energy of about 200 eV and then decreases, before increasing again when the electrons attain MeV energies and start radiating substantial amounts of ...