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A Hult Roos1, J H D Eland2, J Andersson1
1Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg, Origovägen 6B, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden. raimund.feifel@physics.gu.se.
Abstract:
We show that the proportion of double Auger decay following creation of single 1s core holes in molecules containing C, N and O atoms is greater than usually assumed, amounting to about 10% of single Auger decay in many cases. It varies from molecule to molecule, where the size of the molecule has a positive correlation to the amount of double Auger decay. In neon, examined as a related benchmark, the proportion of double Auger decay is similar to that in methane, and is in the order of 5%.
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