Correlation satellites in the Xe N4,5-OO and Kr M4,5-NN Auger spectra

Correlation satellite lines originating from the strong mixing between 5s15p5, 5s25p3nd (n=5, 6, 7, ...) and 5s25p3ms (m=6, 7, 8, ...) configurations in the final state of the N4,5-O1O2,3 Auger decay of Xe and between 4s14p5, 4s24p3nd (n=4, 5, 6, ...) and 4s24p3ms (m=5, 6, 7, ...) final-state configurations in the M4,5-N1N2,3 Auger decay of Kr have been studied by means of synchrotron-radiation excited electron spectroscopy and relativistic multiconfigurational Dirac-Fock calculations. Improvements in experimental and computational methods have made it possible, for the first time, to resolve and to assign most of the satellite lines with high accuracy.