Abstract:
The problem of the transition radiation from an electron with a nonequilibrium self-field appearing in view of the sharp scattering of the electron has been considered. It has been shown that the state of the electron with the nonequilibrium field is manifested in the suppression of transition radiation and in the oscillatory dependence of its characteristics on the distance from a plate on which radiation occurs to the scattering point. The problem of the measurement of the characteristics of bremsstrahlung under the conditions when macroscopic transverse distances are responsible for the scattering process has been considered. It has been shown that the results of the measurement in this case significantly depend on the size of the detector and on its position with respect to the scattering point.