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Phys. Rev. A 66, 012709 (2002) [5 pages]

Investigation of complex ionization amplitudes in xenon by (e,2e) spectroscopy

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J. G. Childers* and N. L. S. Martin
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055

Received 5 April 2002; published 19 July 2002

We have carried out an (e,2e) experiment that investigates ionization in Xe over the autoionizing region between the 2P3/2 and 2P1/2 ionic thresholds. Manipulation of (e,2e) energy spectra reveals interference effects between odd- and even-parity multipole ionization amplitudes. The data is analyzed in terms of a simple model that demonstrates that the data contains both magnitude and phase information about these complex ionization amplitudes.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.66.012709
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.66.012709
PACS:
34.80.Dp, 32.80.Dz

*Present address: Department of Physics, California State University, Fullerton, P.O. Box 6866, Fullerton, CA 92834-6866.