An improved description of the multiple ionization KβLi satellite energy spacings

Complete text of publication follows. In analytical works, and in basic atomic physics research one needs the data of the satellite lines, therefore we began to make a new compilation of the energy shifts of the KαLiMmNn ..., KβLiMmNn ... satellites, and K2αLiMmNn ..., K2βLiMmNn ... hypersatellites. A byproduct of this compilation is a test of the 'classic' description of their energy spacings as a function of Z. The larger database we have now, made it possible, to obtain a better description. For KαLi satellites see Ref [2]. The old version gave equidistant spacing also for the KβLi satellites, using an average effective Z seen by the electrons: ΔE(KβL) = 4.38ZL = 4.38(Z - 4.15), our version uses an effective Z changing with the number of spectator L vacancies: ΔE(KβLi) = i x 3.37[Z + (i -1) x 0.5 - 5.37]; i = 1,2,3,...,7. This equation, obtained by fitting a representative portion of our complied data is in agreement with experimental data, perhaps the i = 7 case is a little bit underestimating them, probably because of the significant number of additional M, N vacancies. Full account is given in a paper in preparation. (author)