Mergel, V., Achler, M., Dörner, R., Khayyat, Kh., Kambara, T., Awaya, Y., Zoran, V., Nyström, B., Spielberger, L., McGuire, J. H., Feagin, J., Berakdar, J., Gomez Abal, R., Schmidt-Böcking, H.
Helicity Dependence of the Photon-Induced Three-Body Coulomb Fragmentation of Helium Investigated by Cold Target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy
Physical Review Letters 80, pp 5301-5304 (1998)
The angular and energy dependence of circular dichroism in photo-double-ionization of helium at a photon energy of 99 eV is investigated. Using cold target recoil ion momentum spectroscopy the absolute fivefold differential cross section has been obtained by a coincident measurement of the vector momenta of one electron and the recoiling He2+ ion covering all relative azimuthal and polar angles. The experimental results are contrasted with numerical calculations using different helium ground state wave functions and forms of the dipole operator.
TH-1998-07