Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-dzt6s Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-24T02:52:41.314Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The production of characteristic X-rays by electronic impact

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

L. H. Thomas
Affiliation:
Trinity College

Extract

Rosseland proposed a theory of the production of characteristic X-rays. He calculated the number of atoms from which on the average an electron with definite energy will remove an electron from a particular core orbit, but neglected the velocity of the core electron in its orbit and the increased velocity of the impinging electron due to the atomic field. Taking these into account considerably alters his formula.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1927

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

* Rosseland, , Phil. Mag., Vol. XLV (1923), p. 65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Cf. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., Vol. XXIII (1927), p. 714.Google Scholar

Cf. Williams, , Manchester Memoirs, Vol. LXXI (1927), p. 38, where the same formula for this chance is obtained.Google Scholar

* P. 78, loc. cit.Google Scholar

* Wooten, , Phys. Rev., Vol. XIII (1919), p. 76.Google Scholar