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Polarization of X-Rays by Scattering from the Interior of a Cylinder

II. Double Scatter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

John D. Zahrt*
Affiliation:
Chemistry Department, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona
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In the previous paper, ZRI, we have discussed the properties of single scatter radiation emanating from a point source, displaced a distance e° from the inside radius r* of a cylinder wall, scattering inside the wall, and reaching a point analyte on a diameter line with the source but removed a distance eA, from the inside radius. Figure 1 shows the instrumental design. It is to be recalled that a triangle inscribed by a circle with two of its verticles defining a diameter is always a right triangle. Thus all such scattering events described above are approximately 90°. This in turn almost annihilates the electric field vector in the scattering plane and creates essentially plane polarized X-rays at the analyte. If the analyte-detector line lies perpendicular to the plane of the cylinder, scattering of the polarized source X-rays by the analyte into the detector Is also a 90° event, and being perpendicular to the first scattering plane, should essentially annihilate the source X-rays at the detector.

Type
IX. Other XRF Applications
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1983

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References

1. Zahrt, John D. and Ryon, Richard, polarization of X-Rays by Scattering from the Interior of a Cylinder, I. Single ScatterGoogle Scholar
2. Chandrasekhar, S., “Radiative Transfer” (Chapter II), Dover, New York, 1960.Google Scholar