Hello Jatin,
I don't confess expertise but i think the absorption coeff. relates to
the overlap between the initial and final wavefunction. Therefore the
interference between outgoing and backscattering modulates the final
wavefunction which manifests as the exafs fluctuations past the edge
which in turn changes the It signal so we can use the difference
between Io and It to measure exafs data. Any additional comments are
welcomed if I am mistaken as I said I am not an expert.
Buena salud,
Chris Patridge
On Oct 8, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Jatinkumar Rana wrote: Hi Scott, Nice to see you back-in-action from holidays. Thank you very much
for your suggestions. Since last few days i was trying to visualize the physical process
going on inside an absorbing atom when we measure EXAFS, i met few
really basic questions, which of course, could be due to lack of my
understandings. Therefore, I tried to go through literatures and
EXAFS books but i am not satisfied. Therefore, i decided to put them to mailing list My first question is : In EXAFS, the oscillations are due to the intereference between the
outgoing photo electron from absorbing atom and incoming
backscattered photoelectron from the scatterer. Depending upon, how
much they are out of phase w.r.t each other we get oscillations in
EXAFS curve. These oscillations are nothing but the variation in the
absobtion coefficient of sample as the energy of incident photon is
varied. I wonder, how, the intereference between the photo electrons is
related to absorbtion coefficient of sample ?? because, It = I0 * exp (-ut) My second question is : While measuring EXAFS at beamline, we only measure the intial
intensity (Io) and the transmitted intenstiy from sample (It). In
other words, we only measure the number of photons before and after
the sample and variation in abs.coeffi.(u) is related to variation
in It. How interference between photoelectrons will be reflected as
variation in abs.coeffi. (u) of sample while we never measure photo
electrons in EXAFS?? We only measure Io and It. Also, whether the intereference between photo electrons is
constructive or destructive, the incident photon will lose its
energy once it knocks an electron from say K-shell of absorbing atom
and hence photon is said to have absorbed. I will be really thankful to you for your valuable explanation. With Best regards,
Jatin Rana
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From: "Frenkel, Anatoly" For relationships between sigma2 for MS and SS paths, some are
listed in the Appendix to this article: P. Shanthakumar, et al, Physical Review B 74, 174103 (2006). Anatoly