Form-Factors of Relativistic Electron Bunches in Polarization Radiation

Abstract

The formalism of form factors is the basis for the describing the coherent radiation of bunches that comprise relativistic charged particles. The general theory of coherent radiation for synchrotron and bremsstrahlung radiation, when radiation is generated directly by charged particles, but not by the material of a target, was developed long ago. However, there is no general model of coherent radiation for such polarization radiation as transition, diffraction and other types of radiation, when the radiation is generated by the material of a target polarized by the electromagnetic field of relativistic particles. This often causes the misapplication of the form factors of synchrotron radiation to other types of radiation. In this paper, we suggest the simplified algorithm for construction of form factors for different types of polarization radiation of relativistic electrons in the material of a target.