Atomic excitation and ionization as the result of inner-shell vacancy creation

✍ Scribed by Takeshi Mukoyama; Yoshiaki Ito; Kazuo Taniguchi

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 71 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0049-8246
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4539(199911/12)28:6<491::aid-xrs378>3.0.co;2-7

✦ Synopsis

The probabilities of atomic excitation and ionization as the result of K-shell and L-subshell vacancy production have been calculated relativistically by the use of the Dirac-Fock-Slater wavefunctions in the sudden approximation. The results indicate that the ionization process is dominant for inner-shell electrons, whereas the excitation process becomes important for outer shells. Comparison with other theoretical calculations and with the experimental data is made.