Interpretation of intensities in electron-momentum and photoelectron spectroscopiesag

Abstract

Relative intensities for the photoelectron reaction on atoms and molecules are not related to structure calculations in the same way as those for the noncoplanar symmetric (e, 2e) reaction. The photoelectron dipole matrix element is dependent on recoil momentum only through the unique relationship of recoil momentum to the photon energy and is much harder to calculate for chemically-interesting momenta. Relative intensities for binary (e, 2e) reactions are independent of total energy at high enough energies and strongly dependent on symmetry and recoil momentum, for which an intensity profile can be measured for values starting at zero. In comparing with structure calculations, binary (e, 2e) intensities for low recoil momentum may be compared directly with pole strengths in calculations of the one-electron Green's function. In the case of states within a single symmetry manifold the relative intensities will be independent of recoil momentum up to some maximum, usually at least a few atomic units.