Inner-shell photoionization at relativistic energies

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 3527-3537

  Ionescu, Dorin C ^a   Sørensen, Allan H ^a,b   Belkacem, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 0008463786     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.3527     Document Type: Article

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