Auger-mediated sticking of positrons to surfaces: Evidence for a single-step transition from a scattering state to a surface image Potential bound State

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Mukherjee, S ^a   Nadesalingam, M P ^a   Guagliardo, P ^b   Sergeant, A D ^b   Barbiellini, B ^c   Williams, J F ^b   Fazleev, N G ^a,d   Weiss, A H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KAZAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUND STATE; ELECTRON WORK FUNCTIONS; IMAGE POTENTIAL STATE; SCATTERING STATE; SECONDARY ELECTRONS; SINGLE-STEP TRANSITION; SURFACE IMAGE; VALENCE ELECTRON;

AUGERS; ELECTRONS;

POSITRONS;

EID: 77953727847     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.247403     Document Type: Article

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