January 9, 2009 10:21 World Scientific Book - 9.75in x 6.5in ws-bo ok975x65˙n˙2nd˙Ed
804 Principles of Radiation Interaction in Matter and Detection
A.4 Electronic Structure of the Elements
For this version of the Electronic Structure of the Elements (reproduced with the
permission from Groom, D.E. et al. (2000), Table 5.1, pages 78-79, Review of
Particle Physics, Particle Data Group, The Eur. Phys. Jou. C 15, 1;
c
° by
SIF, Springer-Verlag 2000), the electronic configuration and ionization energies are
mainly taken (except those marked by *) from [Martin and Lise (1995)]. For in-
stance, the electron configuration for silicon indicates a neon electronic core (see
neon) plus two 3s electrons and two 3p electrons. The ionization energy is the least
necessary energy to remove to infinity one electron from an atomic element.
Electronic configurations of the elements are available on the web [Kotochigova,
Levine, Shirley, Stiles and Clark (1996)]. Furthermore in this Reference, data for
atomic electronic structure calculations have been generated to provide a standard
reference for results of specified accuracy under commonly used approximations. Re-
sults are presented there for total energies and orbital energy eigenvalues for all
atoms from H to U, at microHartree accuracy in the total energy, as computed
in the local-density approximation (LDA), the local-spin-density approximation
(LSD), the relativistic local-density approximation (RLDA), and scalar-relativistic
local-density approximation (ScRLDA).