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Physical Review A

Relativistic effects in photoionization time delay near the Cooper minimum of noble-gas atoms

Soumyajit Saha, Ankur Mandal, Jobin Jose, Hari R. Varma, Pranawa C. Deshmukh, Anatoli S. Kheifets, V. K. Dolmatov, Steven Trent Manson

Published Nov 6, 2014• 44 citations
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Abstract

The time delay of photoemission from noble-gas atoms is analyzed in the vicinity of a Cooper minimum, showing that the presence of the Cooper minimum in one channel has a strong effect on the time delay in other channels.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.90.053406

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