Precision investigations of the spectra of low-energy electrons from radioactive decay using an ESA50 combined electrostatic spectrometer

Abstract

Methods for producing thin radioactive sources, for processing multiplet spectra and for the energy calibration of a spectrometer, which have been used in numerous precision investigations of low-energy K- and L-Auger electrons and conversion electrons, which are emitted in the radioactive decay of nuclei, using an ESA50 combined electrostatic spectrometer are described.