Collective Oscillations in Many Electron Atoms. III. Photoabsorption

Abstract

The generalization by Bloch of the Thomas-Fermi atom to time-dependent motion is applied to the calculation of the photoabsorption cross section. The results are in reasonable agreement with the experimental cross sections in the range of photon energies 0·3 Z e V < lim < 300 Z e V, where Z is the atomic number of the atom.