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Fix energy grid for photoelectric cross sections
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Comparing binding energies in incoh.data and xcom_photo.data I found
that for elements Z=88 and Z=90 the L1 binding energy in xcom_photo.data
was four times larger than the one found in incoh.data. The differences
in the L2 and L3 binding energies were 5% and 20%, respectively.

These large discrepancies were traced to an error in the energy value
immediately below the 100 keV point near their K shell binding energy
Eb_K. The K shell binding energies for these elements lies above 100 keV
and two equal energy points are used at the K edge, representing the
jump in the cross section. However the energy point below 100 keV was
also set to Eb_K rather than 80 keV.
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mainegra authored and ftessier committed May 25, 2017
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