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When an autoionising state is excited near its threshold by electron impact the scattered electron is still close to the atom when the latter decays by ejecting an electron. After the autoionisation the post-collision interaction (PCI) causes the ejected and the scattered electron to exchange energy and angular momentum in the Coulomb field of the residual ion. The energy exchange may even be large enough for the scattered electron to be captured into a singly excited state of the neutral atom. This post-collision interaction plays a role in several other atomic collision processes (see Heideman 1980 and references therein).
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van der Burgt, P.J.M., van Eck, J., Heideman, H.G.M. (1985). Orbital Angular Momentum Exchange in Post-Collision Interaction. In: Kleinpoppen, H., Briggs, J.S., Lutz, H.O. (eds) Fundamental Processes in Atomic Collision Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 134. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2125-5_28
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