Topics, X
X Rays > s.a. astronomy.
* Idea: Energetic photons, usually coming from electronic transitions
to deep-lying atomic levels, with energies in the KeV range.
* History: Discovered
by Röntgen
in 1895.
* Applications: Crystallography
by X-ray diffraction; Medical imaging; Astronomy and astrophysics.
@ General references: issue PT(95)nov;
Farmelo SA(95)nov [discovery]; Altarelli et al SA(98)dec [ultrabright sources];
Cesareo RNC(00)
[and matter]; Als-Nielsen & McMorrow
01 [r PT(02)mar].
@ Phase imaging: Nugent et al PRL(96)
+ pn(06)sep;
Fitzgerald PT(00)jul.
@ Diffraction from non-crystals: Miao et al Nat(99)jul
+ pn(99)aug.
Xenon > see elements.
XY Chain / Model > see quantum phase transitions; spin models.
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