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Published on: May 3, 2019
Decay of a 2p inner-shell hole in an Ar(+) ion
S-M Huttula1, P Lablanquie2, L Andric3
1Department of Physics, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, 90014 Oulu, Finland.
Abstract:
Direct measurements of the photoelectrons or Auger electrons associated with inner shell ionization of positively charged ions are extremely difficult and rarely realized. We propose an alternative method to simulate such measurements, based on core valence double photoionization of the neutral species. As an example, we obtain the spectroscopy, lifetimes, and Auger decays of the states arising from 2p inner shell ionisation of an Ar(+) ion. Observations compare well with theoretical predictions obtained within multiconfigurational Dirac-Fock formalism.
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