Recent advances in attosecond XUV pulse generation pave the way for time-resolved investigation and control of electron wave-packets [1]. However, the models used for interpreting those experiments often neglect the underlying many-electron processes that unfold on the same time-scale as the photoelectron emission.

We report on the development of a package that aims at integrating the Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation (TDSE) including many-body effects, as well as providing reliable ab initio data of use in atomic attophysics in a time-independent framework, e.g. photoelectron phases ? which relate to so-called photoionization time delays ?, multi-photon ionization cross- sections, and resonance properties. We follow a configuration interaction approach with orbitals expended on B-spline basis sets. For dealing with the complicated angular integration involved in computing matrix elements, we use the Atomic Structure Package (ATSP2K) [2]. In order to avoid problems due to the finite box in time independent computations, we solve the many-body problem along complex radial coordinates, i.e. using the Exterior Complex Scaling method.

This package is tested by performing a detailed study of the photoionization of Argon with photon energy ranging from 26 eV to 44 eV. Below 30 eV, a close-coupling expansion targeting the description of the 3snp series of autoionizing states is used. The computed resonance parameters and photoelectron angular distribution agrees with previous R-matrix calculations and experiments [3]. Recent experiments have reported photoionization relative delay between 3s and 3p ionization at 34.1, 37.2 and 40.3 eV photon energy [4]. We present preliminary results showing that this delay is strongly affected by many nearby correlation satellite states. However, smoothed curve for the relative delay shows a satisfying agreement with experiment.

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