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Auger Electron Spectra from Free Atoms and Molecules

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A system excited to a discrete, quasistationary state above the first ionization potential may decay by the emission of an electron. In current terminology, electron emission from neutral systems is generally referred to as autoionization, while the term Auger electron emission is usually reserved to designate decay from initially ionic states. The latter processes were first observed by P. Auger in 1925 /1/. He studied X-ray absorption by means of cloud chamber experiments and found that besides the photoelectron tracks, other tracks appeared, whose lengths were independent of the X-ray photon energy. He concluded thus that these were due to internal conversion processes.

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Siegbahn, H. (1978). Auger Electron Spectra from Free Atoms and Molecules. In: Nicolaides, C.A., Beck, D.R. (eds) Excited States in Quantum Chemistry. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9902-2_9

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