Measurement of partial L fluorescence yields of bismuth using synchrotron radiation

Yves Ménesguen (1) , Bruno Boyer (1) , Matias Rodrigues (1) , Marie-Christine Lépy (1)

1 LNHB - Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel

Tunable monochromatic photon radiation was used to measure transmission of a bismuth target in the energy range from 7 keV to 20 keV. Partial L fluorescence yields of bismuth were obtained by combining measurement of the fluorescence induced by photoionization of the bismuth target and X-rays from the radioactive decay of Pb-210. Several photon energies have been used to successively ionize the L subshells, which allowed detailed analysis of the rearrangement spectra and determination of the X-ray relative intensities of the L-1, L-2 and L-3 series.

Keywords: Bismuth; Mass attenuation coefficients; Fluorescence yields; Synchrotron radiation; Pb-210; Photoionization; L shell; KRONIG TRANSITION-PROBABILITIES; L-SUBSHELL FLUORESCENCE; SHELL COSTER-KRONIG; RANGE; COEFFICIENTS; ELEMENTS; WIDTHS; DECAY; AUGER; RAD

Domains: Optics / Photonic; Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]; Atomic Physics [physics.atom-ph]

Yves Ménesguen, Bruno Boyer, Matias Rodrigues, Marie-Christine Lépy. Measurement of partial L fluorescence yields of bismuth using synchrotron radiation. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2016, 109, pp.133 - 138. ⟨10.1016/j.apradiso.2015.11.081⟩. ⟨cea-01833250⟩