PCI and interference effects in the energy and angular correlation between the photoelectron and the Auger electron for equal electron energies

Photoionization in the inner shell of an atom followed by Auger decay is considered for the case of equal energies of the emitted electrons. Due to the indistinguishability of both electrons it is imperative to describe this process as resonance embedded in the double ionization continuum, i.e. within the one-step formulation. As a consequence, two amplitudes appear where either one of the two electrons with momenta and is connected to the photoprocess, and correspondingly the other to the Auger decay. We have accounted for the modification of these amplitudes by post-collision interaction (PCI). To elucidate our theoretical treatment we have selected a simple example and demonstrate how both exchange and PCI strongly modify by interference the energy- and angle-dependent correlation patterns of coincident two-electron emission.