Experimental determination of ruthenium L-shell fluorescence yields and Coster-Kronig transition probabilities

Abstract

The L-shell fluorescence yields and the Coster-Kronig factors of ruthenium (and the corresponding uncertainty) were determined for the first time experimentally by applying radiometrically calibrated instrumentation of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt. The resulting fluorescence yields (${\omega }_{L_3}=0.0459(20)$, ${\omega }_{L_2}=0.0415(26)$, ${\omega }_{L_1}=0.0109(9)$) and the Coster-Kronig factors ($f_{23}=0.177(32)$, $f_{13}=0.528(90)$, $f_{12}=0.173(73)$) agree reasonable well with parts of the data from the literature.