<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>L</mml:mi></mml:math>Fluorescent X-Ray Relative-Intensity Measurements

Abstract

Measured values of the relative intensities of several $L$ fluorescent x rays are reported for 13 elements ranging from cerium through plutonium. A solid-state Si(Li) spectrometer and a Bragg-diffraction spectrometer were used to analyze the x-ray excited fluorescence from thin samples. Corrections were made to the measured relative intensities for sample absorption, air absorption, and spectrometer efficiency. The accuracy of the measurements varies from \ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}5 to \ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}15%. The results are compared with those from the Scofield calculations.