Photoexcitation of K-shell and L-shell Hollow Beryllium

We have observed K-shell and L-shell hollow beryllium atoms (2s22p3s and 1s3s23p) created by photoexcitation using synchrotron radiation. Resonance shapes were fitted to the Fano profile and the parameters were deduced. A Dirac-Fock calculation was performed to identify the configuration of the peaks and to predict other hollow atomic peaks. The results of the calculation were in good agreement with the experimental data. The comparison of the transition strength has revealed that the three-electron photoexcitation to the 1s3s23p configuration is stronger than the two-electron photoexcitation to the 2s22p3s configuration. This is attributed to the large overlap between the 2s orbital of the ground state (1s22s2) with the 3s orbital of the L-shell hollow state (1s3s23p)