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Published December 15, 1962 | public
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Effect of Exchange on L to K Capture Ratios

Abstract

Two years ago, Robinson and Fink (1) called attention to a systematic discrepancy between observed and predicted L to K electron capture ratios. Many experiments have since been performed to investigate this discrepancy. The observed L to K ratio has been found (2-5) to exceed 5 to 25 percent the predicted L to K ratio for all nine of the precisely measured allowed electron captures with Z between 18 and 36. The calculations reported in this note remove the systematic disagreement between theory and experiment by including atomic states in the description of the radioactive system.

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©1962 The American Physical Society. Received 13 November 1962. I am grateful to Professor R.W. Fink, Mr. R.B. Moler, and Professor B.L. Robinson for valuable correspondence concerning experiments recently performed and in progress. I am indebted to Professor R.F. Christy and Dr. F.C. Michel for stimulating discussions and to Barbara A. Zimmerman for performing the numerical calculations. This paper presents results of one phase of research carried out at the California Institute of Technology under Contract NASW-6(WO-98001) sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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