Double photoionization of doubly-excited lithium

We present triple differential cross sections and recoil ion momentum distributions for double photoionization of the 1s2s2p state of lithium. Double ionization of lithium may be treated as a two-active-electron process, where the ``active'' 2s and 2p electrons move in the field of the ``frozen-core'' Li$^{2+}$ 1s state.The time-dependent close-coupling (TDCC) method is used to solve the two-electron time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation in full dimensionality. This work is motivated by recent FLASH experiments, which have obtained recoil-ion momentum distributions at a photon energy of 59 eV, where the 1s2s2p state is first reached via a 1s-2p photoexcitation from the initial ground state, and may then be doubly-ionized after the absorption of a second photon. The TDCC calculations in this work treat the subsequent photoionization of this doubly-excited state. The results are compared to those obtained by the convergent close-coupling method and to measurement, and provide a first comparison between theory and experiment in this fundamental few-photon few-body problem.