Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics, College of Science Campus, M. L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur 313001 (Raj.) India
Abstract
The isotropic Compton profile of mercury has been measured, using 661.65 keV gamma-rays from a 20 Ci 137Cs source. To extract the true experimental Compton line shape, besides the usual systematic corrections we have incorporated for the first time the background correction due to bremsstrahlung radiation generated by photo and Compton electrons. Theoretical computations have been carried out, using the renormalised-free-atom (RFA) for the electron configuration 4f145d106s2 and free electron models. It is found that the present experimental data with bremsstrahlung background correction are in better agreement with the RFA calculations. This work suggests the incorporation of the bremsstrahlung background correction in Compton scattering experiments of heavy materials using high-energy gamma-ray sources.
Subject
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy,Mathematical Physics
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