Abstract
For potential use in the study of the structure of the liquid–vapor interface of a liquid metal, we analyze the scattering of a collimated beam of x rays which strike the plane surface of a liquid metal at an angle below the range for total external reflection. Our analysis of the diffraction pattern is based on the Von Laue model of a condensed phase scatterer and the distorted wave approximation. The x-ray total reflectance–diffraction is expressed in terms of the structure factor of the inhomogeneous transition zone between the liquid and vapor of a metal.
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