COMPARATIVE-STUDY OF THE DECAY MECHANISMS FOR 4D RESONANCES OF IODINE AND 3P RESONANCES OF COPPER

This paper describes the approximations which allow to calculate the rates of the various decay processes for core resonances below inner-shell thresholds of open-shell atomic systems (4d thresholds of iodine and 3p of copper). Moreover, it emphasizes the different mechanisms that predominantly produce either singly-charged ions when a valence state decay is considered, or doubly-charged ions in case of an excitation to a level of a Rydberg series. Despite different decay mechanisms, the main conclusions are similar to those obtained for closed-shell atoms. In particular, the rate of the double Auger with the Rydberg electron spectator or nearly spectator (shake-up process) in the first step is increasing as soon as the first resonances but this decay path is progressively replaced by shake-off (2 electrons ejected simultaneously) whose rate is increasing with the principal quantum number n of the Rydberg electron.