Photoionization dynamics of Ar trapped in a fullerene anion: Coulomb confinement resonances in 2s subshell and its impact on the 3s subshell

Abstract

The photoionization dynamics of the inner subshell of an endohedral anion, using relativistic random phase approximation (RRPA), is investigated. The charged nature of the fullerene induces Coulomb confinement resonances (CCRs) not only on the 2s cross-section but also on other dynamical attributes such as angular distribution asymmetric parameter, phase shift, and time delay of the same subshell. More importantly, we find that the 2s CCRs resurrect confinement resonances into the photoionization dynamics of 3s ionization channels at energies far away from the 3s threshold. The impacts of the revivification of these resonances on the 3s cross-section, phase shift, and time delay are explored in this work.