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SLAC-PUB-0848
Radiative Corrections to Electron Scattering

Abstract

Radiative corrections to the electron scattering from nucleons and nuclei at high energies (> 50 MeV> are considered. Many formulas in the Mo and Tsai article in Review of Modern Physics are improved and better derivations of them are presented. The effects of the straggling of electrons in the medium due to both the external bremsstrahlung and the ionization are included in the radiative corrections. A method for dealing with the radiative corrections to the scattering from a target material with a large Z is proposed. We suggest that the proper way to deal with the radiative corrections to the coincidence experiments is in terms of the energy-momemtum distribution and the density matrix of the virtual photon exchanged; formulas needed for dealing with the problem this way are presented.

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