Dr. Nirmal Singh

Professor and Chair

Department of Physics

Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

 

Title: Recent Experimental Studies on Photo-atom scattering in the X-Ray energy region

 

An overview of our recent measurements of the elastic and inelastic scattering differential cross-sections in the photon energy range 14-88 KeV for elements in the atomic region Z = 1-92 at backward scattering angles will be presented. In these measurements special emphasis was given to elements having K/Li shell/sub shell binding energy in the vicinity of the incident photon energy. The measured elastic cross-sections were compared with the existing theoretical values obtained in the IPA through calculations of modified relativistic form factors (MFs), a combinations of MFs and angle independent anomalous scattering factors (ASFs), and the relativistic second order S-matrix. The measured inelastic are compared with those calculated using the relativistic Klein-Nishina cross-sections and the non-relativistic Hartree-Fock incoherent scattering Functions (ISFs). Investigations on the KL and KM resonant Raman scattering (RRS) of the 59.536 KeV photons for Yb, Lu and Hf will also be presented.

4:10 pm, Room 432 Phy/Geo