An experimental and theoretical study of the Kr 3d correlation satellites

Abstract

Abstract The Kr 3d correlation satellites have been studied experimentally by using plane polarized synchrotron radiation to record polarization dependent photoelectron spectra (PES), and theoretically by employing the R-matrix method to calculate photoionization cross sections, PES and angular distributions. The experimental spectra have allowed the photoelectron anisotropy parameters characterizing the angular distributions, and the intensity branching ratios, related to the photoionization partial cross sections, to be evaluated. The results are discussed in terms of normal and conjugate shake-up processes. The experimental and calculated photoelectron angular distributions associated with those correlation satellites that arise predominantly through conjugate shake-up mechanisms are shown to be isotropic. In contrast, the anisotropy parameters associated with satellites due to normal shake-up processes exhibit a dependence on electron kinetic energy similar to that of the anisotropy parameters corresponding to the Kr 3d main lines. The theoretical results include an analysis of the partial waves representing the emitted photoelectron and, for certain correlation satellites, show that a particular ionization continuum dominates. This, in turn, may allow the dominant normal or conjugate shake-up mechanism forming the satellite to be identified.