Research Article

Effective Atomic Number Determination of Rare Earth Oxides with Scattering Intensity Ratio

Table 1

Rayleigh to Compton scattered intensity ratio and experimental and theoretical effective atomic numbers of rare earth oxides at 59.54 keV.

Rare earthRayleigh to Compton intensity ratioExperimental effective atomic number Other experimentalTheoretical

La2O3 55.79
Pr2O3 −55.11* 57.85
Sm2O3 60.91
Eu2O3 −58.88* 61.89
Er2O3 67.21

 *Singh et al. [1].