Auger transition

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The filling of a vacancy in an inner electron shell of an atom, e.g. as created in electron capture, is accompanied by the emission of an electron from the outer shell, an Auger electron. (ICRP Publication 107, 2007)


ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019