HIGH-RESOLUTION, LOW-TEMPERATURE PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY AT THE HISOR LINEAR UNDULATOR BEAMLINE

Abstract

In order to study the electronic states of solids, using high-resolution, low-temperature photoemission spectroscopy (PES) with tunable photon energies, we have constructed a high-resolution undulator beamline operating in the photon-energy range 26–300 eV at the compact 700 MeV electron-storage ring HiSOR located at Hiroshima University. By way of gas-phase experiments, with photon flux larger than 2 × 1010 photons/s, photon-energy resolving powers of E/ΔE > 16000 and 3800 were obtained at hν ~ 48 eV and ~ 244 eV, respectively. High-resolution PES experiments on evaporated Au at 8 K were performed at the beamline with a total energy resolution of ΔE = 12 meV at hν = 48 eV. Among the first experiments from the beamline, a resonant photoemission study of UNiSn is presented. The U 5f derived peak is significantly enhanced at hν = 98 eV.