Abstract
Using the experimental angular distributions of photoelectrons from the K-shells of an oriented CO molecule reported in a companion paper, we have performed a so-called complete experiment and determined 18 dynamical parameters (ten moduli of transition moments and eight phase differences) for the O K-shell, and 16 dynamical parameters (nine moduli of transition moments and seven phase differences) for the C K-shell, and compared them with the results of our calculations in the relaxed-core Hartree-Fock (RCHF) approximation. The agreement between theory and experiment is only qualitative, therefore the model has to be improved by including electron correlations. From the analysis of experimental data we proved that the σ* shape resonance is due to not only the f-wave, as was widely believed earlier, but is due to approximately equal contributions of three partial waves with 1⩽l⩽3 for the C K-shell, and four partial waves with 0⩽l⩽3 for the O K-shell, with a rather substantial contribution of other partial waves with l⩽5. From the analysis of the transition moments determined from the experiment it follows that several Cooper minima are likely to exist in partial photoionization cross sections, in particular, in the C 1sσ→εsσ and in the O 1sσ→εdσ transitions.