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Study of gamma/ X ‐ray interaction in Kondo insulators
Author(s) -
Manjunatha H.C.,
Seenappa L.,
Sridhar K.N.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
x‐ray spectrometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.447
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1097-4539
pISSN - 0049-8246
DOI - 10.1002/xrs.2809
Subject(s) - absorption (acoustics) , mean free path , kondo insulator , physics , photon , attenuation coefficient , condensed matter physics , gamma ray , work (physics) , mass attenuation coefficient , electrical resistivity and conductivity , materials science , kondo effect , atomic physics , nuclear physics , optics , scattering , thermodynamics , quantum mechanics
We have studied the gamma/X‐ray interaction parameters such as mass attenuation coefficient, mean free path (λ), half value layer, 10th value layer, energy‐absorption buildup factors, and variation of electrical conductivity with the energy of gamma/X‐ray between 1 keV and 100 GeV for Kondo insulators such as FeSi, Ce 3 Bi 4 Pt 3 , SmB 6 , YbB 12 , CeNiSn, CeRhSb, CeRuSn, and CeFeP. The variation of photon interaction parameters with incident energy of gamma/X‐ray is graphically represented. We have also identified the X‐ray absorption edges for the Kondo insulators. This identified X‐ray absorption edges are useful in the characterizing of Kondo insulators such as FeSi, Ce 3 Bi 4 Pt 3 , SmB 6 , YbB 12 , CeNiSn, CeRhSb, CeRuSn, and CeFeP. Hence, these data are also useful in the material science. This type of data for Kondo insulators is not available in literature. Hence, this work is first of its kind, and it is useful in various fields of nuclear physics.