Abstract
X-ray and Auger transition rates and fluorescence yields have been calculated for the [2p,3p] vacancy states of Ar. The standard Hartree-Fock procedure leads to radial 2p wave functions with a node in the tail region. The calculated transition rates agree well with experiment. A calculation in which special techniques are employed to obtain nodeless 2p wave functions leads to rather poor estimates of the lifetimes, similar to results of earlier Hartree-Fock-Slater calculations. The frozen-core approximation, widely used to calculate Auger rates, yields erroneous results. Reasons for these difficulties are discussed.