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Main Points on Vacancies Decay Theory

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A vacancy created in any atomic shell, except of the outermost one, can decay or undergo a transition into other states with one or more vacancies.

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    Note that in this book atomic system of units is used, in which charge and mass of an electron and Plank constant are equal to 1, \(e = m = \hslash = 1\).

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Amusia, M., Chernysheva, L., Yarzhemsky, V. (2012). Main Points on Vacancies Decay Theory. In: Handbook of Theoretical Atomic Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24752-1_5

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