INTERCHANNEL COUPLING IN AUGER DECAY PROCESSES - CHARACTERIZATION OF NORMAL AND SATELLITE LINES IN THE AUGER-ELECTRON SPECTRUM OF THE LIF MOLECULE

An alternative method for taking into account correlation effects in the calculation of Auger decay rates is presented here. This approach, which generalizes a technique recently proposed by the authors [Phys. Rev. A 39, 6247 (1989)], is based on the coupling of final ionic states and decay channels and has been applied to the construction of a theoretical Auger spectrum of the LiF molecule in which transitions also due to shakeoff and shakeup processes are taken into account. © 1990 The American Physical Society.