Mechanisms of photo double ionization of helium by 530 eV photons

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Jul 15;89(3):033004. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.033004. Epub 2002 Jun 27.

Abstract

We have measured fully differential cross sections for photo double ionization of helium 450 eV above the threshold. We have found an extremely asymmetric energy sharing between the photoelectrons and an angular asymmetry parameter beta approximately 2 and beta approximately 0 for the fast and slow electrons, respectively. The electron angular distributions show a dominance of the shakeoff for 2 eV electrons and clear evidence of an inelastic electron-electron scattering at an electron energy of 30 eV. The data are in excellent agreement with convergent close-coupling calculations.