Absorption length
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The absorption length or attenuation length in x-ray scattering is the distance over which the x-ray beam is absorbed. By convention, the absorption length λ is defined as the distance into a material where the beam flux has dropped to 1/e of its incident flux.
Absorption
The absorption follows a simple Beer-Lambert law: