title: Experimental values of K to Li sub-shell, K to L, and K to M shell vacancy transfer probabilities for some rare earth elements.
abstract: The K to Li (i=2,3), K to L, and K to M shell vacancy transfer probabilities for La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy and Er were determined at 59.54keV using a reflection geometry. The measurements were performed using an (241)Am annular radioactive source and a high resolution Si(Li) detector. The experimental results were compared with the theoretical values of Hartree-Slater and Hartree-Fock theories, semi-empirical and other available experimental results in the literature. Reasonable agreement is observed between the measured and theoretical results.
authors.affiliation: Bingöl University, Vocational School of Technical Sciences, Department of Electronic Communication Technology, 12000 Bingöl, Turkey. Electronic address: fakman@bingol.edu.tr.
authors.forename: Ferdi
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Akman
keywords: Fluorescence yield; Vacancy transfer probability; X-ray intensity ratio; X-ray production cross section