Study of photoemission spectroscopy with polarized x-rays

Ping-Shine Shaw; Shaul Hanany; Yee Liu; Robert Novick; Andrea E. Santangelo; Giuseppe Manzo

doi:10.1117/12.193194

7 November 1994 Study of photoemission spectroscopy with polarized x-rays

Ping-Shine Shaw, Shaul Hanany, Yee Liu, Robert Novick, Andrea E. Santangelo, Giuseppe Manzo

Proceedings Volume 2283, X-Ray and Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and Polarimetry; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.193194
Event: SPIE's 1994 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1994, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Several recent experiments were conducted to study the x-ray induced photoemission from solids by polarized x rays for its potential application to stellar x-ray polarimetry. However, it was shown recently that the earlier observed polarization dependence of the secondary photoelectron yield was affected by spurious effects and no polarization dependence could be observed after these spurious effects had been eliminated. Here, we report our first measurement of the primary photoelectrons, i.e., photoelectrons with energy higher than 50 eV. We measured the primary photoelectron yield of a silicon sample as a function of the polarization state of the incident 2.69 keV x-ray beam. We observed that the change of photoelectron yield for different polarization states is especially pronounced around the no-loss photoelectron peaks. This polarization dependency can be explained by the angular distribution of photoelectrons from free atoms excited by polarized x rays. We discuss the experimental results and their implications.

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Ping-Shine Shaw, Shaul Hanany, Yee Liu, Robert Novick, Andrea E. Santangelo, and Giuseppe Manzo "Study of photoemission spectroscopy with polarized x-rays", Proc. SPIE 2283, X-Ray and Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and Polarimetry, (7 November 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.193194

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