Planar and axial coherent bremsstrahlung of type A from a 17-MeV electron beam in a diamond crystal

Making use of the many-beam (one- and two-dimensional quantum treatment) formalism for transversely bound electrons moving through crystal lattices, we have computed planar and axial coherent bremsstrahlung (type A) spectra for 17-MeV electrons passing through a 10-\ensuremath{\mu}m thick diamond (C) crystal. We found that in the planar case the momentum transfer occurs in the direction perpendicular to the plane and results in a photon emission in the forward direction (electron-beam direction). In the axial case, the momentum transfer occurs in the plane perpendicular to the axis of interest. Only momentum transfers along the scan direction (electron transverse momentum direction) result in a photon emission in the forward direction. Two different scans have shown that the energies of the coherent bremsstrahlung peaks depend strongly on the direction of the electron transverse momentum but the intensities of the strongest peaks do not show any considerable change.