We present here measurements of the angleintegrated 5/>, 5s, and Ad subshell photoionization cross sections for polycrystalline Ba around and above the Ad threshold. Soft-x-ray-induced photoemission in Ba is dominated by many-electron interactions: A broad Ad resonance is accompanied by outer-shell photoexcitation resonances near the threshold which cannot be explained in the framework of a one-electron model.The energy of soft x rays absorbed in a solid or gas is converted principally into photoelectron energy. The kinetic energy of outgoing photoelectrons provides information about the initial and 241 (1972).