Reflection of inner shell resonances in the outer shell photoionization of endohedral atom Xe@C60


  Miron Ya. Amusia [1, 2]   ,  Larissa V. Chernysheva [2]  
[1] Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
[2] Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St.-Petersburg, Russia

Fullerenes C60 are close to spherically - symmetric structures of C. They can be stuffed by almost all atoms A or even simple molecules. Noble gas atoms inside C60 prefer to locate  at the center. This stuffed atom is called endohedral and denoted as A@C60. It is of interest from pure scientific and application point of view as objects with very complex electron structure and as vehicles to deliver atoms at a given place in materials and biological objects. They can be building blocks of new substances. Photoionization of A is a powerful tool to study A@C60. It is demonstrated in the talk by the example of the 5p-subshell of the Xe atom stuffed inside the C60 fullerene, i.e. the endohedral Xe@C60 that the so-called confinement resonances in 4d subshell strongly affect the absolute and differential in the photoelectron emission angle cross-section of 5p electrons photoionization in the region of 4d ionization threshold. It is a sort of a surprise that the narrow inner shell resonances are not smeared out in the outer shell photoionization cross-section. Inner shell resonances affect the outer cross-section by enhancing this enormously and modifying 5p dipole and non-dipole angular anisotropy parameters. Close to its own photoionization threshold, 5p photoionization cross-section of Xe@C60 is dominated by its own confinement resonances greatly enhanced by the intensity of incoming radiation due to polarization of the C60 electron shell by the incoming photon beam. In between the 4d and 5p thresholds, the effect of 4d is becoming stronger while own resonances of 5p are becoming less and less important.