ELECTRON-SPECTROSCOPY OF PLANETARY ATOMS

被引:100
作者
SENG, M [1 ]
HALKA, M [1 ]
HEBER, KD [1 ]
SANDNER, W [1 ]
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[1] MAX BORN INST,D-12489 BERLIN,GERMANY
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.3344
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We present time-of-flight spectra of autoionizing electrons ejected from doubly excited planetary atoms in strontium with high angular momenta of both electrons (6fn, n=16, =10). "Apparent" branching ratios for electron emission into various final channels (not corrected for unknown angular distributions) are reported. They include novel radiative-to-autoionization cascade process. To our knowledge these results represent the first comprehensive investigation of the internal decay dynamics of a highly excited, quasibound three-body Coulomb system. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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页码:3344 / 3347
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