THE EGS5 CODE SYSTEM

Table 2.6: Data sources for generalized treatment of photoelectric-related phenomena in EGS5.
Data
Source
K-edge energies Table 2 of Table of Isotopes, Eighth Edition [57]
Probabilities of x-ray emission at K- Table 3 of Table of Isotopes, Eighth Edition
and L-shell absorption
K x-ray energies
Table 7 Table of Isotopes, Eighth Edition
K x-ray emission probabilities
Table 7 Table of Isotopes, Eighth Edition, Adjusted
to experimental data by Salem et al.[144]
L1, L2, and L3 edge energies Table 2 of Table of Isotopes, Eighth Edition
L x-ray energies
Table 7b of Table of Isotopes, Eighth Edition (Storm
and Israel [167] is used if data is not available in [57])
Probability of Coster-Kronig L1- and Table 3 of Table of Isotopes, Eighth Edition
L2-shell absorption
L x-ray emission probabilities
Theoretical data by Scofield[146], adjusted to experimental
data by Salem et al.
Average M edge energies Calculated from sub-shell binding energy in Table 2
of Table of Isotopes, Eighth Edition
Auger electron energies
Calculated neglecting correction term by using atomic
electron binding energy in Table 2 of Table of Isotopes,
Eighth Edition
K-Auger intensities
Z = 12 − 17, Table 1 of Assad[11]
Z > 17 Table 8 of Table of Isotopes, Eighth Edition
L-Auger intensities
Table 2 from McGuire[102]
M0 s(Z), M 1 s(Z), M 2 s(Z) and M 3 s(Z)
PHOTX[131]
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