MEASUREMENT OF PROBABILITIES FOR VACANCY TRANSFER FROM THE K-SHELL TOL-SHELL OF THE ELEMENTS 3-LESS-THAN-OR-EQUAL-TO-Z-LESS-THAN-OR-EQUAL-TO-92

K- to L-shell vacancy transfer probabilities were measured for ten ele ments in the atomic range 73 less than or equal to Z less than or equa l to 92. Those measuring L x-ray yields from targets excited by 59.5 a nd 122 keV incident photons, i.e., below and above the K edge of eleme nts, were detected with a high-resolution Si(Li) detector. For compari son with experimental results, theoretical calculations were made by u sing available data on radiative and radiationless transitions. The ra diative transitions of these elements were observed from the relativis tic Hartree-Slater model which was proposed by Scofield [At. Data Nucl . Data Tables 14, 121 (1974)]. The radiationless transitions were obse rved from the Dirac-Hartree-Slater model which was proposed by Chen, C raseman, and Mark [At. Data Nucl. Data Tables 24, 13 (1979)] The measu red results were found to be in good agreement with theoretically calc ulated values. The experimental and theoretical values were fitted ver sus atomic number Z.