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Double photoionization of helium including quadrupole radiation effects

J A Ludlow1, J Colgan2, Teck-Ghee Lee1, M S Pindzola1 and F Robicheaux1

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Non-perturbative time-dependent close-coupling calculations are carried out for the double photoionization of helium including both dipole and quadrupole radiation effects. At a photon energy of 800 eV, accessible at current synchrotron light sources, the quadrupole interaction contributes around 6% to the total integral double photoionization cross section. The pure quadrupole single energy differential cross section shows a local maximum at equal energy sharing, as opposed to the minimum found in the pure dipole single energy differential cross section. The sum of the pure dipole and pure quadrupole single energy differentials is insensitive to non-dipole effects at 800 eV. However, the triple differential cross section at equal energy sharing of the two ejected electrons shows strong non-dipole effects due to the quadrupole interaction that may be experimentally observable.


PACS

32.80.Rm Multiphoton ionization and excitation to highly excited states

31.15.-p Calculations and mathematical techniques in atomic and molecular physics

Subjects

Atomic and molecular physics

Computational physics

Dates

Issue 22 (28 November 2009)

Received 24 July 2009, in final form 7 October 2009

Published 5 November 2009



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