X-ray photoabsorption spectrum of potassium near the K-edge

摘要

The authors have used a heat-pipe target in an X-ray beam to obtain photoabsorption spectra of potassium at the K- and KM-edges, in the photon energy range 3,600 to 3,650 eV. Preliminary identifications of most of the peaks observed are made using Dirac Hartree-Fock calculations. They compare these results with those obtained previously in closed-shell rare gas absorption spectra.