Physics – Atomic Physics
Scientific paper
2006-05-09
Physics
Atomic Physics
14 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-4075/39/20/003
Formulating a quasiclassical approach we determine the cross section for the complete four-body break-up of the lithium ground state following single photon absorption from threshold up to 220 eV excess energy. In addition, we develop a new classification scheme for three-electron ionizing trajectories in terms of electron-electron collisions, thereby identifying two main ionization paths which the three electrons in the ground state of lithium follow to escape to the continuum. The dominant escape paths manifest themselves in a characteristic ``T-shape'' break-up pattern of the three electrons which implies observable structures in the electronic angular correlation probability. This break-up pattern prevails for excess energies so low that the Wannier threshold law $\sigma\propto E^{\alpha}$ describes already the triple ionization cross section, whose predicted value $\alpha=2.16$ we can confirm quantitatively.
Emmanouilidou Agapi
Rost Jan M.
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