Relativistic K shell decay rates and fluorescence yields for Zn, Cd and Hg

TL;DR

This paper employs the multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock method to compute decay rates and fluorescence yields for K shell vacancies in Zn, Cd, and Hg, providing comparisons with existing data.

Contribution

It introduces detailed relativistic calculations of decay rates and fluorescence yields for specific elements, enhancing accuracy over previous semi-empirical models.

Findings

Calculated transition probabilities for all decay channels.

Computed fluorescence yields and compared with existing data.

Validated the method against experimental and theoretical results.

Abstract

In this work we use the multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock method to calculate the transition probabilities for all possible decay channels, radiative and radiationless, of a K shell vacancy in Zn, Cd and Hg atoms. The obtained transition probabilities are then used to calculate the corresponding fluorescence yields which are compared to existing theoretical, semi-empirical and experimental results.