Ab Initio Investigation of the Auger Spectra of Methane, Ethane, Ethylene, and Acetylene. 2023

Florian Matz, and Jonas Nijssen, and Thomas-C Jagau
Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.

We present an ab initio computational study of the Auger spectra of methane, ethane, ethylene, and acetylene. Auger spectroscopy is an established technique to probe the electronic structure of molecules and exploits the Auger-Meitner effect that core-ionized states undergo. We compute partial decay widths using coupled-cluster theory with single and double substitutions (CCSD) and equation-of-motion CCSD theory combined with complex-scaled basis functions and Feshbach-Fano projection. We generate Auger spectra from these partial widths and draw conclusions about the strength of particular decay channels and trends among the four molecules. A connection to experimental results about fragmentation pathways of the electronic states produced by Auger decay is also made.

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