X-ray excited KLL and KLM Auger spectra of manganese

High resolution (ΔE < 1.5 eV) manganese KLL and KLM Auger spectra, obtained by photoexcitation, are persented, and the transition energies and intensities are compared with the experimental and theoretical data published earlier. Significant disagreement can be observed between the respective experimental intensity values in the cases of the most intense lines, and large differences are found between the experimental and the available theoretical transition energy values of the main peaks. The disagreements between the experimental data can be explained rather by the different chemical states of the manganese samples investigated in the separate experiments than by the different mechanisms of the Auger processes.