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Photon-Atom Interactions: Intermediate Energies

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Abstract

The main photon-atom interaction processes in the energy range from ≈1  keV to ≈1  MeV are outlined. The atomic response to inelastic photon scattering is discussed; essential aspects of radiative and radiationless transitions are described, including hole-state widths and fluorescence yields, in the two-step approximation which applies well above threshold where atomic de-excitation is nearly independent of the excitation process. Multi-electron photoexcitation that transcends the independent-electron model is briefly considered.

Threshold phenomena that arise when the two-step model breaks down, so that excitation and de-excitation must be treated as a single second-order quantum process are described. The time-independent resonant scattering approach that leads to a unified description of photoexcitation, ionization, and Auger electron or X-ray emission is outlined. In terms of this theory, Raman processes and post-collision interaction are described.

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Abbreviations

COLTRIMS:

cold-target recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy

MMCDF:

multichannel multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock

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Crasemann, B. (2006). Photon-Atom Interactions: Intermediate Energies. In: Drake, G. (eds) Springer Handbook of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. Springer Handbooks. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-26308-3_62

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