Origin of low-energy satellites in K X-ray spectra. I. α-region

Abstract

In view of the success of the theory of radiative Auger processes, the authors have undertaken a review of all the available data on low-energy satellites of X-ray spectra to find suitable transitions to assign to them and thereby bring some systematisation to the rather scattered data. The results of the study on Kalpha satellites are given. Many low-energy satellites of K-spectra have been assigned to K-L3M4,5 and K to L2M4,5 radiative Auger transitions.