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Low-energy X-ray standards from hydrogenlike pionic atoms.

D F Anagnostopoulos1, D Gotta, P Indelicato

  • 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece.

Physical Review Letters
|December 20, 2003
PubMed
Summary

Researchers established a new X-ray energy standard using pionic neon atoms. These narrow, reproducible spectral lines can serve as secondary standards for complex systems like titanium.

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