Modeling of the bremsstrahlung radiation produced in pure-element targets by 10–40 keV electrons

Abstract

A new global relationship has been developed for predicting electron-excited bremsstrahlung intensities over a wide range of accelerating voltages 10–40 keV, atomic numbers 4–92, and x-ray energies 1.5–20 keV. The new relationship was determined empirically from the mathematical modeling of extensive data and is designed for calculating bremsstrahlung intensities in analytical procedures, such as those requiring peak-to-background measurements, where the direct measurement of the bremsstrahlung intensities is impracticable. The distribution of errors between the data and the model is symmetrical, centered around zero error with 63% of the values falling between ±10% relative error.