Calculation of K, L, M and N binding energies and K X-rays for elements from Z = 96–120

Abstract

Atomic parameters should be of great help in identifying the new superheavy nuclei, since X-rays resulting from internal conversion and electron capture are characteristic of the daughter element; and the energies of internal conversion electrons are dependent on the atomic binding energies. Therefore, the inner-shell binding energies and K X-ray energies for the heavy and superheavy elements have been calculated from solutions of relativistic Hartree-Fock-Slater atomic wave functions employing a finite nuclear size. After adding a small semi-empirical correction, we believe that the final results for X-ray energies are accurate to the order of 0.1%.