Abstract
The researchers report on a new study of the x-ray photoabsorption spectrum of sodium near the K-edge, involving the calculations of the excitation energies and the excitation transition probabilities for K-shell and M-shell electron excitations transitions in atomic sodium. The calculations were carried out by employing the ‘multi configuration Dirac–Fock method’, Breit interactions and ‘finite nuclear size corrections’ are included in the calculations, the transition probabilities were convoluted into ‘Breit–Wigner’ line shapes, and single 1s photoionization was also taken into account. In addition, the [1s]np and the [1s3s]ns n′p singlet–triplet energy splitting was calculated. Results of the calculations were compared with previous measurements of the photoabsorption spectrum of sodium near the K-edge, and a very good agreement was observed.
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