Eur. Phys. J. D 57, 155-170 (2010)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2010-00023-x

Energies and widths of atomic core-levels in liquid mercury

Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 3, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland

Corresponding author: yves-patrik.maillard@unifr.ch

Received: 2 September 2009
Revised: 22 December 2009
Published online: 16 February 2010

Abstract

High-resolution measurements of the photoinduced X-ray emission of liquid mercury were performed, using a transmission DuMond-type crystal spectrometer for transitions above 11 keV and a reflection von Hamos-type crystal spectrometer for transitions below 11 keV. The target X-ray fluorescence was produced by irradiating the sample with the Bremsstrahlung from X-ray tubes. The energies and natural linewidths of 6 K-shell, 26 L-shell and 2 M-shell X-ray transitions were determined. Using a least-squares-fit method to solve the two sets of equations derived from the observed transition energies and transition widths the binding energies of the subshells K to M₅ and O₁ and the level widths of the subshells K to N₅ and O₁ could also be determined.