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The production of characteristic X-rays by electronic impact

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

L. H. Thomas
Affiliation:
Trinity College
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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.

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1927

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