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The Photoelectric Absorption of Gamma Rays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

L. H. Gray
L. H. Gray
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Fellow of Trinity College
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No satisfactory formula has so far been derived theoretically for the photoelectric absorption of X-rays and γ-rays. The empirical law

has hitherto been generally accepted as giving approximately the variation of the photoelectric absorption coefficient per electron, with atomic number Z and wave length λ for X-rays of wave length greater than 100 X.U., and the validity of this law has often been assumed for γ-rays also.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , January 1931 , pp. 103 - 112
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1931

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