Relativistic photoeffect for s states in a central field

Abstract

We study the photoionization of the $s$ states in the systems bound by sufficiently weak central fields $V(r)$ for the large photon energies corresponding to the relativistic photoelectrons. We demonstrate that the energy dependence of the photoionization cross section can be obtained without solving the wave equation. We show that the shape of the energy dependence of the cross section is determined by analytical properties of the binding potential $V(r)$. We find the cross sections for the potentials $V(r)$ which have singularities in the origin, on the real axis and in the complex plane.