Correlation satellites in the Xe N₄,₅-OO and Kr M₄,₅-NN Auger spectra

Correlation satellite lines originating from the strong mixing between 5s 1 5p 5 , 5s 2 5p 3 nd (n=5, 6, 7, ...) and 5s 2 5p 3 ms (m=6, 7, 8, ...) configurations in the final state of the N 4,5 -O 1 O 2,3 Auger decay of Xe and between 4s 1 4p 5 , 4s 2 4p 3 nd (n=4, 5, 6, ...) and 4s 2 4p 3 ms (m=5, 6, 7, ...) final-state configurations in the M 4,5 -N 1 N 2,3 Auger decay of Kr have been studied by means of synchrotron-radiation excited electron spectroscopy and relativistic multiconfigurational Dirac-Fock calculations. Improvements in experimental and computational methods have made it possible, for the first time, to resolve and to assign most of the satellite lines with high accuracy.