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Oliveira AP, Jalbert G, Rocha AB. Fano–Feshbach formalism applied to the calculation of autoionization widths through analytic continuation. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:244116. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0094855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
A method to calculate the autoionization width from a discretized pseudo-spectrum is proposed. This method relies on an analytic continuation of Green’s function within the Fano–Feshbach formalism. The pseudo-spectrum is obtained at the multireference configuration interaction level in a square-integrable basis set, commonly found in quantum chemistry software. Few states around the desired resonance are needed to perform the analytic continuation. This method was applied to atomic (He and Ne) and molecular (HF and benzene) systems, and the results for the autoionization width show good agreement with the available theoretical and experimental values.
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- A. P. Oliveira
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Instituto de Química, Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, 149, Rio de Janeiro - RJ 21941-909, Brazil
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Instituto de Física, Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, 149, Rio de Janeiro - RJ 21941-909, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Instituto de Física, Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, 149, Rio de Janeiro - RJ 21941-909, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Instituto de Química, Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, 149, Rio de Janeiro - RJ 21941-909, Brazil
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Jahnke T, Hergenhahn U, Winter B, Dörner R, Frühling U, Demekhin PV, Gokhberg K, Cederbaum LS, Ehresmann A, Knie A, Dreuw A. Interatomic and Intermolecular Coulombic Decay. Chem Rev 2020; 120:11295-11369. [PMID: 33035051 PMCID: PMC7596762 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c00106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Interatomic or intermolecular Coulombic decay (ICD) is a nonlocal electronic decay mechanism occurring in weakly bound matter. In an ICD process, energy released by electronic relaxation of an excited atom or molecule leads to ionization of a neighboring one via Coulombic electron interactions. ICD has been predicted theoretically in the mid nineties of the last century, and its existence has been confirmed experimentally approximately ten years later. Since then, a number of fundamental and applied aspects have been studied in this quickly growing field of research. This review provides an introduction to ICD and draws the connection to related energy transfer and ionization processes. The theoretical approaches for the description of ICD as well as the experimental techniques developed and employed for its investigation are described. The existing body of literature on experimental and theoretical studies of ICD processes in different atomic and molecular systems is reviewed.
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- Till Jahnke
- Institut
für Kernphysik, Goethe Universität, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut
der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Max
Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Wendelsteinstr. 1, 17491 Greifswald, Germany
- Leibniz
Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM), 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut
der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut
für Kernphysik, Goethe Universität, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institut
für Experimentalphysik and Center for Ultrafast Imaging, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institut
für Physik und CINSaT, Universität
Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany
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- Physical-Chemistry
Institute, Ruprecht-Karls University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Physical-Chemistry
Institute, Ruprecht-Karls University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut
für Physik und CINSaT, Universität
Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany
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- Institut
für Physik und CINSaT, Universität
Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany
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- Interdisciplinary
Center for Scientific Computing, Ruprecht-Karls
University, Im Neuenheimer
Feld 205, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Howell RW. Advancements in the use of Auger electrons in science and medicine during the period 2015-2019. Int J Radiat Biol 2020; 99:2-27. [PMID: 33021416 PMCID: PMC8062591 DOI: 10.1080/09553002.2020.1831706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2020] [Revised: 09/01/2020] [Accepted: 09/28/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Auger electrons can be highly radiotoxic when they are used to irradiate specific molecular sites. This has spurred basic science investigations of their radiobiological effects and clinical investigations of their potential for therapy. Focused symposia on the biophysical aspects of Auger processes have been held quadrennially. This 9th International Symposium on Physical, Molecular, Cellular, and Medical Aspects of Auger Processes at Oxford University brought together scientists from many different fields to review past findings, discuss the latest studies, and plot the future work to be done. This review article examines the research in this field that was published during the years 2015-2019 which corresponds to the period since the last meeting in Japan. In addition, this article points to future work yet to be done. There have been a plethora of advancements in our understanding of Auger processes. These advancements range from basic atomic and molecular physics to new ways to implement Auger electron emitters in radiopharmaceutical therapy. The highly localized doses of radiation that are deposited within a 10 nm of the decay site make them precision tools for discovery across the physical, chemical, biological, and medical sciences.
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- Roger W Howell
- Division of Radiation Research, Department of Radiology, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
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Fasshauer E. Effect of spin-orbit coupling on decay widths of electronic decay processes. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:224307. [PMID: 32534556 DOI: 10.1063/5.0002243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Auger-Meitner processes are electronic decay processes of energetically low-lying vacancies. In these processes, the vacancy is filled by an electron of an energetically higher lying orbital, while another electron is simultaneously emitted to the continuum. In low-lying orbitals, relativistic effects can not, even for light elements, be neglected. At the same time, lifetime calculations are computationally expensive. In this context, we investigate which effect spin-orbit coupling has on Auger-Meitner decay widths and aim for a rule of thumb for the relative decay widths of initial states split by spin-orbit coupling. We base this rule of thumb on Auger-Meitner decay widths of Sr4p-1 and Ra6p-1 obtained by relativistic FanoADC-Stieltjes calculations and validate it against Auger-Meitner decay widths from the literature.
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- Elke Fasshauer
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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Saue T, Bast R, Gomes ASP, Jensen HJA, Visscher L, Aucar IA, Di Remigio R, Dyall KG, Eliav E, Fasshauer E, Fleig T, Halbert L, Hedegård ED, Helmich-Paris B, Iliaš M, Jacob CR, Knecht S, Laerdahl JK, Vidal ML, Nayak MK, Olejniczak M, Olsen JMH, Pernpointner M, Senjean B, Shee A, Sunaga A, van Stralen JNP. The DIRAC code for relativistic molecular calculations. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:204104. [PMID: 32486677 DOI: 10.1063/5.0004844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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DIRAC is a freely distributed general-purpose program system for one-, two-, and four-component relativistic molecular calculations at the level of Hartree-Fock, Kohn-Sham (including range-separated theory), multiconfigurational self-consistent-field, multireference configuration interaction, electron propagator, and various flavors of coupled cluster theory. At the self-consistent-field level, a highly original scheme, based on quaternion algebra, is implemented for the treatment of both spatial and time reversal symmetry. DIRAC features a very general module for the calculation of molecular properties that to a large extent may be defined by the user and further analyzed through a powerful visualization module. It allows for the inclusion of environmental effects through three different classes of increasingly sophisticated embedding approaches: the implicit solvation polarizable continuum model, the explicit polarizable embedding model, and the frozen density embedding model.
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- Trond Saue
- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantique, UMR 5626 CNRS-Université Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse, France
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- Department of Information Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523-PhLAM-Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL-1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Instituto de Modelado e Innovación Tecnológica, CONICET, and Departamento de Física-Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UNNE, Avda. Libertad 5460, W3404AAS Corrientes, Argentina
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- Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Dirac Solutions, 10527 NW Lost Park Drive, Portland, Oregon 97229, USA
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- School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantique, UMR 5626 CNRS-Université Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse, France
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- Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523-PhLAM-Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Division of Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University, Chemical Centre, P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Matej Bel University, Tajovského 40, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
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- Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Gaußstr. 17, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- ETH Zürich, Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Microbiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Theoretical Chemistry Section, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400085, India
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- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, S. Banacha 2c, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
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- Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL-1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji-city, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL-1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Sisourat N, Engin S, Gorfinkiel JD, Kazandjian S, Kolorenč P, Miteva T. On the computations of interatomic Coulombic decay widths with R-matrix method. J Chem Phys 2017; 146:244109. [PMID: 28668042 DOI: 10.1063/1.4989538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Nicolas Sisourat
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
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- School of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
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Dutoi AD, Leone SR. Simulation of X-ray transient absorption for following vibrations in coherently ionized F2 molecules. Chem Phys 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2016.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Sisourat N, Kazandjian S, Randimbiarisolo A, Kolorenč P. Interatomic Coulombic decay widths of helium trimer: A diatomics-in-molecules approach. J Chem Phys 2016; 144:084111. [PMID: 26931685 DOI: 10.1063/1.4942483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We report a new method to compute the Interatomic Coulombic Decay (ICD) widths for large clusters which relies on the combination of the projection-operator formalism of scattering theory and the diatomics-in-molecules approach. The total and partial ICD widths of a cluster are computed from the energies and coupling matrix elements of the atomic and diatomic fragments of the system. The method is applied to the helium trimer and the results are compared to fully ab initio widths. A good agreement between the two sets of data is shown. Limitations of the present method are also discussed.
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- Nicolas Sisourat
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC University Paris 06, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC University Paris 06, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC University Paris 06, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00 Prague, Czech Republic
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Ghosh A, Pal S, Vaval N. Lifetime of inner-shell hole states of Ar (2p) and Kr (3d) using equation-of-motion coupled cluster method. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:024305. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4926396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- Aryya Ghosh
- Electronic Structure Theory Group, Physical Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411008, India
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- Electronic Structure Theory Group, Physical Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411008, India
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
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- Electronic Structure Theory Group, Physical Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411008, India
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Southworth SH, Wehlitz R, Picón A, Lehmann CS, Cheng L, Stanton JF. Inner-shell photoionization and core-hole decay of Xe and XeF2. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:224302. [PMID: 26071705 DOI: 10.1063/1.4922208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Photoionization cross sections and partial ion yields of Xe and XeF2 from Xe 3d(5/2), Xe 3d(3/2), and F 1s subshells in the 660-740 eV range are compared to explore effects of the F ligands. The Xe 3d-ϵf continuum shape resonances dominate the photoionization cross sections of both the atom and molecule, but prominent resonances appear in the XeF2 cross section due to nominal excitation of Xe 3d and F 1s electrons to the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO), a delocalized anti-bonding MO. Comparisons of the ion products from the atom and molecule following Xe 3d photoionization show that the charge-state distribution of Xe ions is shifted to lower charge states in the molecule along with production of energetic F(+) and F(2+) ions. This suggests that, in decay of a Xe 3d core hole, charge is redistributed to the F ligands and the system dissociates due to Coulomb repulsion. The ion products from excitation of the F 1s-LUMO resonance are different and show strong increases in the yields of Xe(+) and F(+) ions. The subshell ionization thresholds, the LUMO resonance energies, and their oscillator strengths are calculated by relativistic coupled-cluster methods and agree well with measurements.
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- Stephen H Southworth
- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Synchrotron Radiation Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Stoughton, Wisconsin 53589, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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