Breakdown of the spectator concept in low-electron-energy resonant decay processes
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
2018-12-18 v1
Abstract
We suggest that low energy electrons, released by resonant decay processes, experience substantial scattering on the electron density of excited electrons, which remain a spectator during the decay. As a result, the angular emission distribution is altered significantly. This effect is expected to be a common feature of low energy secondary electron emission. In this letter, we exemplify our idea by examining the spectator resonant interatomic Coulombic decay (sRICD) of Ne dimers. Our theoretical predictions are confirmed by a corresponding coincidence experiment.
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@article{arxiv.1810.07415,
title = {Breakdown of the spectator concept in low-electron-energy resonant decay processes},
author = {A. Mhamdi and J. Rist and D. Aslitürk and M. Weller and N. Melzer and D. Trabert and M. Kircher and I. Vela-Perez and J. Siebert and S. Eckart and S. Grundmann and G. Kastirke and M. Waitz and A. Khan and M. S. Schöffler and F. Trinter and R. Dörner and T. Jahnke and Ph. V. Demekhin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.07415},
year = {2018}
}
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5 pages two figures