Photoelectric cross sections for 6–20-keV photons in beryllium, carbon, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, copper, silver, and lead

Abstract

Photoelectric cross sections for low-energy photons in the energy range of 5.9 to 20.16 keV in beryllium, carbon, aluminum, magnesium, silicon, copper, silver, and lead have been determined experimentally through photon-transmission measurements performed under narrow-beam counting geometry with Si (Li) as a photon detector. The photoelectric-cross-section values reported in this work are found to be in agreement with the values computed theoretically by E. Storm and H. I. Israel [Nucl. Data Tables A 7, 565 (1970)].