Separation and identification of dominant mechanisms in double photoionization.
Double photoionization by a single photon is often discussed in terms of two contributing mechanisms, knockout (two-step-one) and shakeoff, with the latter being a pure quantum effect. It is shown that a quasiclassical description of knockout and a simple quantum calculation of shakeoff provides a clear separation of the mechanisms and facilitates their calculation considerably. The relevance of each mechanism at different photon energies is quantified for helium. Photoionization ratios, integral, and singly differential cross sections obtained by us are in excellent agreement with benchmark experimental data and recent theoretical results.
Schneider
Tobias
T
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany. tosch@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
Chocian
Peter Leszek
PL
Rost
Jan-Michael
JM