X-Ray Diffraction: Why Doesn't It Eject Electrons?

[sarvesh upadhyay]

X-ray has enough energy to eject the electron in the atom, molecule etc. But in the x-ray diffraction electron does not eject, only oscillate with the same frequency as X -ray,why? Why does not x-ray eject the electron?

 

[mfb]

Some of them do. Both processes happen, you can just ignore one if you are not interested in it.

 

[ZapperZ]

X-ray has enough energy to eject the electron in the atom, molecule etc. But in the x-ray diffraction electron does not eject, only oscillate with the same frequency as X -ray,why? Why does not x-ray eject the electron?

This is not correct. There's nothing that says that electrons are also not ejected.

The experimental setup typically is looking only for the diffracted x-ray, i.e. it has some photodetector, not an electron analyzer. So of course the setup will not detect any emitted photoelectrons, because that is not the purpose of an x-ray diffraction experiment.

If you do the same thing in vacuum, and you have an electron analyzer designed to do a x-ray photoemission spectroscopy, I can almost guarantee you that you WILL detect photoelectrons.

Zz.