“…For these and other reasons, a large amount of information has been generated on SF 6 photoionization and related excitation processes: On the theoretical side, several groups have calculated the electronic structure ( Gianturco et al 1971, Connolly and Johnson 1971, von Niessen et al 1975, Hay 1977, von Niessen et al 1979 of SF 6 , and others have calculated partial photoionization cross sections (Gianturco et al 1972, Sachenko et al 1974, Levinson et al 1979 and photoelectron angular distributions for all the subshells of SF 6 • In addition, the elastic e-SF 6 scattering cross section (Dehmer et al 1978, Benedict andGyemant 1978) has been calculated indicating the role of the above-mentioned shape resonances and the close connection (Dehmer and Dill 1979a) between shape resonances in electron scattering and photoionization contexts. An even larger collection of experimental work includes: (i) X-ray absorption and emission cross sections from core levels (LaVilla and Deslattes 1966, Zimkina and Fomichev 1966, Zimkina and Vinogradov 1971, Blechschmidt et al 1972, LaVilla 1972, Agren et al 1978, (ii) VUV absorption by valence levels (Nakamura et al 1971, Blechschmidt et al 1972, Sasanuma et al 1978, Codling 1966, Lee et al 1977, (iii) photoelectron spectra using X-rays (Gelius 1974) and VUV resonance lines (Gustafsson 1978, Gelius 1974, Potts et al 1970, Sell and Kuppermann 1978, (iv) photoelectron angular distributions with He I radiation (Sell and Kuppermann 1978), (v) partial photoionization cross sections (Gustafsson 1978, Ferrett et al 1986) and photoelectron angular distributions , Ferrett et al 1986) using synchrotron radiation, (vi) pho...…”