Re: [Ifeffit] Peaks in MCA spectra

2014-04-02 Thread George Sterbinsky
Matt and Matthew, Thanks for your suggestions. I will try to collect some spectra well above the Co L-edge and see if they provide additional insight. Best, George On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Matthew Marcus mamar...@lbl.gov wrote: I don't think so. This may be a better question for M.

Re: [Ifeffit] Peaks in MCA spectra

2014-04-01 Thread Matthew Marcus
OK, I think the other Matt has solved it - it's the L1 peak. I was confused by an inaccurate attempt at reading the energy scale. Also, I somehow didn't read correctly the branching ratio from Hephaestus. mam On 3/31/2014 8:57 PM, George Sterbinsky wrote: Hi Matt, Thanks for your

Re: [Ifeffit] Peaks in MCA spectra

2014-04-01 Thread George Sterbinsky
Hi Matthew, Hephaestus shows the strength of the Ll emission to be about 10% of the La2 emission. When fitting the spectrum as a sum of Gaussians, I find that the area of of the Gaussian used to fit the Ll is 24% of that used to fit the La2. What would cause the ratio determined from tabulated

Re: [Ifeffit] Peaks in MCA spectra

2014-04-01 Thread Matt Newville
Hi George, On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:56 AM, George Sterbinsky georgesterbin...@u.northwestern.edu wrote: Hi Matthew, Hephaestus shows the strength of the Ll emission to be about 10% of the La2 emission. When fitting the spectrum as a sum of Gaussians, I find that the area of of the Gaussian

Re: [Ifeffit] Peaks in MCA spectra

2014-04-01 Thread Matthew Marcus
I don't think so. This may be a better question for M. Newville, or whoever wrote the program. mam On 4/1/2014 9:56 AM, George Sterbinsky wrote: Hi Matthew, Hephaestus shows the strength of the Ll emission to be about 10% of the La2 emission. When fitting the spectrum as a sum of

[Ifeffit] Peaks in MCA spectra

2014-03-31 Thread George Sterbinsky
Hello, I am writing with a general XAS question. It does not necessarily pertain to Ifeffit, however, I think the topic is something some, maybe most, list members will be knowledgeable about. So it seems like this list is a good place to post this question. On to the question. I have attached a

Re: [Ifeffit] Peaks in MCA spectra

2014-03-31 Thread Matthew Marcus
Hmmm. An interesting brain-teaser. Scaling very roughly from the graph, the mystery peak shows up at about 715eV. This is consistent with Fe. Could there be a background from Fe somewhere in the detection systen? The intensity between the O and Co peaks doesn't really look like a peak, but

Re: [Ifeffit] Peaks in MCA spectra

2014-03-31 Thread Matt Newville
Hi George, Calibrated spectra would help, but if we guess the calibration is 0.56 bins/ eV, then we'd have line E (eV) bin # - Co La1,2 775 434 O Ka1,2 525 294 C Ka1,2 277 155 which

Re: [Ifeffit] Peaks in MCA spectra

2014-03-31 Thread George Sterbinsky
Hi Matthew, Thanks for your reply. see below. On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Matthew Marcus mamar...@lbl.gov wrote: Hmmm. An interesting brain-teaser. Scaling very roughly from the graph, the mystery peak shows up at about 715eV. This is consistent with Fe. Could there be a background