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Published on: June 28, 2016
Photoexcitation of a dipole-forbidden resonance in helium
B Krässig1, E P Kanter, S H Southworth
1Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
Abstract:
We have observed photoexcitation of the dipole-forbidden 1s(2) 1S0-->2p(2) 1D2 resonance in helium by measuring the nondipolar forward-backward asymmetry of photoelectron angular distributions in the 2l2l(') autoionizing region. By exploiting the electric dipole-quadrupole interference in the excitation of both the 2s2p 1P1 and 2p(2) 1D2 levels, we have observed the quadrupole resonance in photoabsorption and extracted its Fano line shape parameters and the relative phase of the 1sEp and 1sEd continua. We find the quadrupole line profile index q(2) to be markedly different from theoretical expectations.
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