Undergrad What happens to X-rays if they do not meet Bragg's law?

[gaiussheh]

Bragg's law states that it must meet $2d\sin[\theta]=m\lambda$ for diffraction to happen. I just wonder, if you have an x-ray of slightly different energy that hits the crystal plane at the same angle $\theta$, what would happen? It certainly can't form the same diffraction pattern at the same angle $\theta$, but as the electrons in the crystal still vibrate, the x-ray still goes somewhere. Can they find another plane so that the diffraction happens at another angle? Or is the energy spread out evenly in $4\pi$?

 

[tech99]

For any EM radiation, each wavelength forms its own diffraction pattern independently and these are superimposed on a screen.