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Helicity dependence of the photon-induced three-body Coulomb fragmentation of helium investigated by cold target recoil ion momentum spectroscopy

V. Mergel, M. Achler, R. Dörner, Kh. Khayyat, T. Kambara, Y. Awaya, V. Zoran, B. Nyström, L. Spielberger, J. H. McGuire, J. Feagin, J. Berakdar, Y. Az

Physical Review Letters 80, pp 5301-5304 (1998) (1998)

The angular and energy dependence of circular dichroism in photo-double-ionization of helium at a photon energy of 99 eV is investigated. Using cold target recoil ion momentum spectroscopy the absolute fivefold differential cross section has been obtained by a coincident measurement of the vector momenta of one electron and the recoiling He2+ ion covering all relative azimuthal and polar angles. The experimental results are contrasted with numerical calculations using different helium ground state wave functions and forms of the dipole operator.

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