Hi Matthew,

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Matthew Marcus <mamarcus@lbl.gov> wrote:

Does anyone know of data on multi-electron peaks at the Yb L3 edge? One of the users here was just running Yb and finds on every spectrum a bump at the same
energy. It's not a Bragg glitch from the sample or an I0 glitch or any other obvious artifact. It reminds me of the two little bumps at Ce. If someone has
analyzed and parameterized this peak as a fraction of edge jump, then it would be possible to subtract it off. The attached papers show exmples for almost every
lanthanide *execpt* Yb.

I have not done much work on Yb, and all the measurements I can find are on the L2 edge, not the L3 edge. That's because the L3 edge is at 8944, 30 to 40 eV below the Cu K edge. In my experience, it's really hard to get rid of Cu and Fe as trace contaminants, especially in natural samples. Is it possible that what you're seeing is not multi-electron excitation by Cu contamination?

For those doing Ce, I've written a program which does the correction, essentially as presented in the attached Gomilsek paper.

That sounds useful.

--Matt