Bremsstrahlung radiation from electron-atom collisions in high pressure mercury lamps

Bremsstrahlung coefficients for electron-mercury-atom collisions were computed using the corrected phase-shift approximation. These corrected bremsstrahlung coefficients are a weighted average of coefficients from the phase-shift and momentum transfer approximations. Phase-shifts determined from solutions of the Dirac-Fock scattering equations including both static and dynamic polarization potentials and exchange effects were used. The corrected coefficients approach the same limit at longer wavelengths as coefficients from the simpler momentum transfer approximation, but are generally larger.