Shake-up photoemission delay in Neon

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Abstract

In the ionization of an atom, electrons emerge from different shells with different delays. A longstanding controversy surrounding the measured ($21\pm5$~as at 105~eV) and computed ($\leq 10$~as) time delay difference between the $2s$- and $2p$-shell photoemission from neon [1] has been explained in a recent experimental work [2]. Shake-up channels, which were not resolved in [1], were responsible for the discrepancy between theoretical calculations and the experimental data. This new finding, however, still awaits quantitative theoretical confirmation. In particular, it is still to be determined whether other channels beyond the one identified as being responsible for the measurement bias, might also contribute. In this work, we report advances of a theoretical study conducted with the \footnotesize\textsc{NEWSTOCK} {\it ab initio} method to analyze and quantify the effect of shake-up channels above 70~eV photon energy in neon. [1] M. Sch\"{u}ltze {\it et al.} Science {\bf 328} 1658 (2010), [2] M. Isinger {\it et al.} Science {\bf 358} 893 (2017).

*Work supported by the NSF Grant No. PHY-1607588 and PHY-1912507

Authors

  • Saad Mehmood

    • Dept. of Physics, University of Central Florida
    • Dept. of Physics, University of Central FLorida
  • Didarul Alam

    • Dept. of Physics, University of Central FLorida
  • Nicolas Douguet

    • Dept. of Physics, Kennesaw University
  • Stefan Donsa

    • Inst. of Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology
  • Luca Argenti

    • Dept. of Physics and CREOL, University of Central FLorida