L-shell radiative transition rates by selective synchrotron ionization

R. BONETTO; A. CARRERAS; J. TRINCAVELLI; G. CASTELLANO

JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS

INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS PUBLISHING

Lugar: Oxford, Gran Bretaña; Año: 2004 vol. 37 p. 1477 - 1488

0953-4075

Relative L-shell radiative transition rates were obtained for a number of decays in Gd, Dy, Er, Yb, Hf, Ta and Re by means of a method for refining atomic and experimental parameters involved in the spectral analysis of x-ray irradiated samples. For this purpose, pure samples were bombarded with monochromatic synchrotron radiation tuning the incident x-ray energy in order to allow selective ionization of the different atomic shells. The results presented are compared to experimental and theoretical values published by other authors. A good general agreement was found and some particular discrepancies are discussed.