Tables of experimental branching ratios of Auger-type post collisional ionization of rare gases

TL;DR

This paper provides detailed tables of branching ratios for post-collisional ionization processes in rare gases, aiding the understanding of multiple ionization phenomena across various particles and energies.

Contribution

It offers comprehensive data on post-collisional ionization branching ratios for rare gases, enhancing previous models of multiple ionization by different projectiles.

Findings

Tables of branching ratios for 0-6 emitted electrons after ionization of Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe.

Values successfully used in prior multiple ionization calculations.

Supports independent, time-delayed electron emission model.

Abstract

When an electron is emitted from a sub-valence shell, a vacancy is created and there is a not-null probability for different post collisional ionization (PCI) processes giving rise to a higher target charge state. It is reasonable to consider that PCI is a time-delayed electron emission and, therefore, independent of the projectile. We include the tables of the branching ratios of $0-6$ post-collisionally emitted electrons after single ionization of Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe in different inner shells. These values have already been employed with good results in previous calculations of multiple ionization of rare gases by electrons, positron, protons, antiprotons and different positive ions (see the text and references therein). These tables and explanation is included in [Montanari C C and Miraglia J E 2014, \textit{J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys.} {\bf 45}, 105203].