Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
From: mikejcai@cco.caltech.edu (Jun Cai)
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Subject: External Auger

Hi everyone,

I am doing a calculation on the decay rate of an external Auger. The problem is as follows. When an Ar ion is scattered off a Na ion in a crystal of NaCl, an electron in the subshell of the Na ion is excited to the valence shell. Since the Na ion is situated in a plasma formed by background electrons, it goes through an external Auger (with the second electron provided by the background) and decays to its ground state. Does anyone out there have the experimental data on this subject? Can external Auger occur for KCl crystal? Please post or email me (mikejcai@cco.caltech.edu) the related information. Thanx.

Mike