Atomic And Nuclear Physics

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Atomic Inner-Shell Excitation and De-Excitation Processes

THIS CHAPTER COVERS…

• Various modes of vacancy creation/excitation of atomic inner-shell.
• The excitation sources like charged particles, electrons, photons or heavy ions and their mechanisms.
• The direct and indirect excitation, radiative and non-radiative transitions and the parameters like fluorescence and Auger yields.
• The non-radiative Coster-Kronig transitions.
• The calculation of these yields in the presence and absence of CK transitions.
• The selective sub-shell excitation by radioactive decay.
• The K- and L-shell X-ray spectra and the method of measurement of relative intensity of X-ray lines.
• The determination of target self-absorption correction factor in XRF experiment.