Spin-Orbit Coupling Effects in Parameters that Describe Electron-Photon Coincidence Experiments
- 6 October 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 45 (14) , 1164-1167
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.45.1164
Abstract
Parameters are introduced to characterize the electron-photon coincidence rate for atoms where spin-orbit interaction is present in the radiating target state. It is shown that two of these parameters (called and ) obey rigorous selection rules which require that they go to at 0° and 180° electron scattering angles in the presence of spin-orbit coupling while their limit in the -coupled case is 0. Numerical results are presented.
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