A REVIEW, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AND TABULATION OF K, L, AND HIGHER ATOMIC SHELL X-RAY-FLUORESCENCE YIELDS

The measured K, L, and higher atomic shell x-ray fluorescence yield data, covering the period 1978 to 1993, following the major previous compilations by Bambynek et al. (1972) and Krause (1979), are reviewed. An annotated bibliography of x-ray fluorescence yield measurements, analyses, fits and tables 1978-1993 is presented. Comparisons of the fluorescence yields omega(K), omega(L)BAR, and omega(M)BAR, based on measurements, and on theoretical models, are presented. Values Of omega(K), omega(L)BAR, and omega(M)BAR, fitted to standard empirical parametric formulations, are presented. In addition, selected well-characterized measured omega(K), omega(L)BAR, and omega(M)BAR results restricted to the period 1978-1993 are listed. These selected measured values are fitted by least squares to polynomials in Z of the form SIGMA(n)a(n)Z(n) and compared with theoretical and with earlier fitted values. A section on application of fluorescence yield data to computations of x-ray energy-absorption coefficients is included.