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On the strong influence of inner shell resonances upon the outer shell photoionization of endohedral atoms
M. Ya. Amusiaab,
L. V. Chernyshevaab a Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
b Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University
Abstract:
It is demonstrated by the example of the Xe atom stuffed inside the C
$_{60}$ fullerene, i.e. the endohedral Xe@C
$_{60}$, that the so-called confinement resonances in
$4d$-subshell strongly affect the photoionization cross-section of outer
$5p$- and subvalent
$5s$-electrons near
$4d$ ionization threshold. It is a surprise that these narrow inner
$4d$ shell resonances are not smeared out in the outer shell photoionization cross-section. On the contrary; the inner shell resonances affect the outer cross-section by enhancing them enormously. Close to its own photoionization thresholds,
$5p$ and
$5s$ photoionization cross-sections of Xe@C
$_{60}$ are dominated by their own confinement resonances greatly affected by the amplification of the incoming radiation intensity due to polarization by it of the C
$_{60}$ electron shell. In between
$4d$- and
$5p$-thresholds, the effect of
$4d$ is becoming stronger while own resonances of
$5p$ and
$5s$ are becoming much less important.
Received: 12.12.2011
Language: English