This volume deals with specific fields of atomic physics:
photoionization, photoelectron spectroscopy and the Auger effect. Here a
vast amount of experimental and theoretical results has emerged during
the last two decades, indeed in the case of photoelectron spectroscopy
the field itself has been developed only since the mid-fifties.
Experimentally, this was mostly due to the development of high
resolution electron spectrometers and the availability or the
development of new radiation sources (e. g. synchrotron radiation, reso-
nance radiation of rare gas discharge lamps, monochromatized
characteristic X-radiation). Here, not only first-order effects with
high precision but, even more important, also second-order effects
caused by electron correlation were studied. Parallel to the development
of new experimental methods, an impor- tant step beyond the
independent-particle model was made on the theoretical side through the
development of various approaches to treat electron cor- relation
effects seen in photoionization and electron spectroscopy. Volume 31 is
divided into the following chapters: Theory of Photoion- ization, Atomic
Photoionization, Photoelectron Spectroscopy, and Theory of the Auger
Effect. A chapter on Auger Electron Spectrometry could not be includ- ed
since the manuscript was not sent in due time. Freiburg, September W.
MEHLHORN 1982 Contents Theory of Atomic Photoionization. By Professor
Dr. ANTHONY F. STARACE, Behlen Laboratory of Physics, Department of
Physics and Astronomy, The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588
(USA). (With 40 Figures) 1. Introduction I. General considerations 5 2.
Introduction 5 3. Derivation of the general cross-section formula 6 4.
The final-state wave function . . . . . . .