https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2007-00310-7
Coincidence studies of electron impact ionization of atomic inner shells
1
Physics Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 23529-0116, USA
2
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, The Queen's University, Belfast, BT7 1NN, UK
Corresponding author: a jmart044@odu.edu
Received:
25
July
2007
Revised:
20
September
2007
Published online:
14
November
2007
We consider (e,2e) processes on the 2s and 2p shells of argon and magnesium. We present triple differential cross sections in coplanar asymmetric geometry calculated in the Plane Wave Born, 1st Born and Distorted Wave Born approximations. We show that the currently available relative experiments can not easily distinguish between these approximations. We make proposals for relative experiments where the difference between these approaches can be more readily observed.
PACS: 34.80.Dp – Atomic excitation and ionization by electron impact / 34.80.Pa – Coherence and correlation in electron scattering / 34.50.Fa – Electronic excitation and ionization of atoms
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2007
