Post-collision interaction in the liquid phase: the role of electron scattering
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| author | Dupuy, Rémi Penent, Francis Lutet-Toti, Bastien Duval, Vincent Palaudoux, Jérome Céolin, Denis |
| author_facet | Dupuy, Rémi Penent, Francis Lutet-Toti, Bastien Duval, Vincent Palaudoux, Jérome Céolin, Denis |
| contents | We report a detailed study of post-collision interaction (PCI) in a liquid medium. We investigate PCI for the Auger KLL electrons of solvated Cl$^-$, K$^+$ and Ca$^{2+}$. All three isoelectronic ions exhibit a very similar PCI behavior, which is little affected by changing the solvent from water to methanol or ethanol. The two main factors modifying the PCI interaction in condensed media is the screening of Coulombic interactions, and scattering of the electrons. The experimental results are compared with the predictions of a previously reported semi-classical PCI theory modified to account for screening and scattering. We show that a better agreement with experiment can be obtained by instead modeling scattering using electron transport Monte-Carlo simulations. We suggest that, in turn, PCI experimental data could be used as another experimental constraint to refine the currently insufficiently well-known scattering parameters of low-energy electrons in water, which are crucial in many fields. |
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| spellingShingle | Post-collision interaction in the liquid phase: the role of electron scattering Dupuy, Rémi Penent, Francis Lutet-Toti, Bastien Duval, Vincent Palaudoux, Jérome Céolin, Denis Chemical Physics Atomic Physics We report a detailed study of post-collision interaction (PCI) in a liquid medium. We investigate PCI for the Auger KLL electrons of solvated Cl$^-$, K$^+$ and Ca$^{2+}$. All three isoelectronic ions exhibit a very similar PCI behavior, which is little affected by changing the solvent from water to methanol or ethanol. The two main factors modifying the PCI interaction in condensed media is the screening of Coulombic interactions, and scattering of the electrons. The experimental results are compared with the predictions of a previously reported semi-classical PCI theory modified to account for screening and scattering. We show that a better agreement with experiment can be obtained by instead modeling scattering using electron transport Monte-Carlo simulations. We suggest that, in turn, PCI experimental data could be used as another experimental constraint to refine the currently insufficiently well-known scattering parameters of low-energy electrons in water, which are crucial in many fields. |
| title | Post-collision interaction in the liquid phase: the role of electron scattering |
| topic | Chemical Physics Atomic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18734 |