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Abstract

Normal incidence circularly polarized VUV radiation with energies around 23 eV creates spin polarized photoelectrons from thick layers of Rb on Pt(111) and thus excites oriented 4p hole states. The preferential spin direction of the Auger electrons and its dependence upon the emission angle has been measured and is compared with the corresponding angular dependence of the primary photoelectron spin polarization also measured. Since the CVV Auger decay relates to as ² pair of valence electrons, the cross comparison of results for photoelectrons and Auger electrons studies the questions on whether photoemission and Auger decay occur in sequence, assuming an independent two step model, and whether the valences-electrons couple to a singlet state configuration.