Comment on "Quantitative x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy: Quadrupole effects, shake up, Shirley background, and relative sensitivity factors from a database of true x-ray photoelectron spectra"

This Comment demonstrates that a comparison analysis by Seah and Gilmore between experimental data on the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy intensities and theoretical data by Trzhaskovskaya et al. is misleading due to a number of serious errors made by Seah and Gilmore (Phys. Rev. B, 73, 174113).Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.

The off-resonant dielectronic recombination in a collision of an electron with a heavy hydrogen-like ion

The recombination of an electron with an (initially) hydrogen-like ion is investigated. The effect of the electron-electron interaction is treated rigorously to the first order in the parameter 1/Z and within the screening-potential approximation to higher orders in 1/Z, with Z being the nuclear charge number. The two-electron correction contains the dielectronic-recombination part, which contributes to the process not only under the resonance condition for the projectile energy but also in the regions far from resonances. The mechanism of the off-resonant dielectronic recombination is studied in detail.Comment: 9 pages, 2 tables, 3 figure

Shake-off in the 164Er neutrinoless double electronic capture and the dark matter puzzle

Traditionally double neutrinoless electronic capture is considered as a resonance process. We have fulfilled shake-off probability calculations, leading to ionization of the electron shell, in the case of 164Er. Allowance for the shake-off removes the requirement of resonance, leading to a radical increase of the capture rate. In the case of 164Er, the contribution of the new mechanism increases the capture rate by a factor of 5.6 as compared to the conventional resonance fluorescence mechanism. It also increases the probability of electron capture from higher shells, which must be foreseen in the experimental studies. Moreover, the effect of the shake-off can expand the list of candidate nuclei for experimental research. The influence of the shake-off is also expected to manifest itself in the other beta processes which are used in the studies of the neutrino nature, its mass and role in the dark matter puzzle.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures. Delivered as a talk at the 71 International conference NUCLEUS - 2021. Nuclear physics and elementary particle physics. Nuclear physics technologies, September 20 - 25, 2021, Saint-Petersburg, Russi