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X rays are generated by acceleration of moving charged particles, by plasma heated to temperatures of the order of a million degrees, and by highly excited atoms having inner vacancies due to the radiative transitions that occur in them. During spontaneous emission of atoms with vacancies, characteristic x-ray spectra that reflect the structure of the energy levels in the excited atoms arise. We will examine these spectra in this chapter. The x-ray spectra of multiply charged ions — the main component of a plasma — are more similar to optical spectra [46, 48] and will not be considered here.
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Karazija, R. (1996). Characteristic Emission Spectra. In: Introduction to the Theory of X-Ray and Electronic Spectra of Free Atoms. Physics of Atoms and Molecules. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1534-4_7
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