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J A Tanis1, A L Landers, D J Pole
1Department of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008, USA.
Abstract:
Single- and double-electron transfer to autoionizing 1s2l2l(') configurations in fluorine ions have been investigated for 1.1 MeV/u collisions of F7+ and F8+ with He and Ne. The resulting Auger electron emission spectra show anomolously large intensities for the formation of the metastable 1s(2s2p 3P) 4P state compared to the similarly configured 1s(2s2p 3P) 2P- and 1s(2s2p 1P) 2P+ states. The large 4P intensity, which cannot be explained on the basis of spin statistics, is attributed instead to the Pauli exchange of similarly aligned electrons.
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