Origin of broad N Kα emission spectra4

A team led by Dr. T. Jach (NIST, USA) and Dr. W. T. Elam (University of Washington, USA) has recently published an interesting theoretical paper discussing the broadening of N K absorption and emission spectra of NH₄NO₃ and NH₄Cl. The authors studied many-body lifetime effects in valence-band X-ray emission. For more information, see the paper, "Origins of extreme broadening mechanisms in near-edge x-ray spectra of nitrogen compounds", J. Vinson et al., Phys. Rev. B90, 205207 (2014).