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Li X, Inhester L, Robatjazi SJ, Erk B, Boll R, Hanasaki K, Toyota K, Hao Y, Bomme C, Rudek B, Foucar L, Southworth SH, Lehmann CS, Kraessig B, Marchenko T, Simon M, Ueda K, Ferguson KR, Bucher M, Gorkhover T, Carron S, Alonso-Mori R, Koglin JE, Correa J, Williams GJ, Boutet S, Young L, Bostedt C, Son SK, Santra R, Rolles D, Rudenko A. Pulse Energy and Pulse Duration Effects in the Ionization and Fragmentation of Iodomethane by Ultraintense Hard X Rays. Phys Rev Lett 2021; 127:093202. [PMID: 34506178 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.093202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2019] [Revised: 01/24/2021] [Accepted: 07/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
The interaction of intense femtosecond x-ray pulses with molecules sensitively depends on the interplay between multiple photoabsorptions, Auger decay, charge rearrangement, and nuclear motion. Here, we report on a combined experimental and theoretical study of the ionization and fragmentation of iodomethane (CH_{3}I) by ultraintense (∼10^{19} W/cm^{2}) x-ray pulses at 8.3 keV, demonstrating how these dynamics depend on the x-ray pulse energy and duration. We show that the timing of multiple ionization steps leading to a particular reaction product and, thus, the product's final kinetic energy, is determined by the pulse duration rather than the pulse energy or intensity. While the overall degree of ionization is mainly defined by the pulse energy, our measurement reveals that the yield of the fragments with the highest charge states is enhanced for short pulse durations, in contrast to earlier observations for atoms and small molecules in the soft x-ray domain. We attribute this effect to a decreased charge transfer efficiency at larger internuclear separations, which are reached during longer pulses.
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- X Li
- J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Hamburg, Germany
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- J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
- European XFEL, Schenefeld, Germany
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Hamburg, Germany
- Institute of Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, USA
- Fachbereich Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, USA
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique-Matière et Rayonnement, LCPMR, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique-Matière et Rayonnement, LCPMR, Paris, France
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- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, USA
- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, USA
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, USA
- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, USA
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, USA
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, USA
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Hamburg, Germany
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, USA
- NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton New York, USA
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, USA
- Department of Physics and James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, USA
- Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen-PSI, Villigen, Switzerland
- Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Hamburg, Germany
- Department of Physics, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany
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- J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
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Mercadier L, Benediktovitch A, Weninger C, Blessenohl MA, Bernitt S, Bekker H, Dobrodey S, Sanchez-Gonzalez A, Erk B, Bomme C, Boll R, Yin Z, Majety VP, Steinbrügge R, Khalal MA, Penent F, Palaudoux J, Lablanquie P, Rudenko A, Rolles D, Crespo López-Urrutia JR, Rohringer N. Evidence of Extreme Ultraviolet Superfluorescence in Xenon. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 123:023201. [PMID: 31386513 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.023201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2018] [Revised: 05/22/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We present a comprehensive experimental and theoretical study on superfluorescence in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength regime. Focusing a free-electron laser pulse in a cell filled with Xe gas, the medium is quasi-instantaneously population inverted by 4d-shell ionization on the giant resonance followed by Auger decay. On the timescale of ∼10 ps to ∼100 ps (depending on parameters) a macroscopic polarization builds up in the medium, resulting in superfluorescent emission of several Xe lines in the forward direction. As the number of emitters in the system is increased by either raising the pressure or the pump-pulse energy, the emission yield grows exponentially over four orders of magnitude and reaches saturation. With increasing yield, we observe line broadening, a manifestation of superfluorescence in the spectral domain. Our novel theoretical approach, based on a full quantum treatment of the atomic system and the irradiated field, shows quantitative agreement with the experiment and supports our interpretation.
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- L Mercadier
- Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
- European XFEL, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Max Planck für biophysikalische Chemie, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique-Matière et Rayonnement, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique-Matière et Rayonnement, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique-Matière et Rayonnement, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique-Matière et Rayonnement, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Department of Physics, Universität Hamburg, 20355 Hamburg, Germany
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Picón A, Lehmann CS, Bostedt C, Rudenko A, Marinelli A, Osipov T, Rolles D, Berrah N, Bomme C, Bucher M, Doumy G, Erk B, Ferguson KR, Gorkhover T, Ho PJ, Kanter EP, Krässig B, Krzywinski J, Lutman AA, March AM, Moonshiram D, Ray D, Young L, Pratt ST, Southworth SH. Hetero-site-specific X-ray pump-probe spectroscopy for femtosecond intramolecular dynamics. Nat Commun 2016; 7:11652. [PMID: 27212390 PMCID: PMC4879250 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2015] [Accepted: 04/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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New capabilities at X-ray free-electron laser facilities allow the generation of two-colour femtosecond X-ray pulses, opening the possibility of performing ultrafast studies of X-ray-induced phenomena. Particularly, the experimental realization of hetero-site-specific X-ray-pump/X-ray-probe spectroscopy is of special interest, in which an X-ray pump pulse is absorbed at one site within a molecule and an X-ray probe pulse follows the X-ray-induced dynamics at another site within the same molecule. Here we show experimental evidence of a hetero-site pump-probe signal. By using two-colour 10-fs X-ray pulses, we are able to observe the femtosecond time dependence for the formation of F ions during the fragmentation of XeF2 molecules following X-ray absorption at the Xe site.
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- A. Picón
- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg 22607, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg 22607, Germany
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg 22607, Germany
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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Guillemin R, Decleva P, Stener M, Bomme C, Marin T, Journel L, Marchenko T, Kushawaha RK, Jänkälä K, Trcera N, Bowen KP, Lindle DW, Piancastelli MN, Simon M. Selecting core-hole localization or delocalization in CS2 by photofragmentation dynamics. Nat Commun 2015; 6:6166. [PMID: 25607354 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2014] [Accepted: 12/19/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Electronic core levels in molecules are highly localized around one atomic site. However, in single-photon ionization of symmetric molecules, the question of core-hole localization versus delocalization over two equivalent atoms has long been debated as the answer lies at the heart of quantum mechanics. Here, using a joint experimental and theoretical study of core-ionized carbon disulfide (CS2), we demonstrate that it is possible to experimentally select distinct molecular-fragmentation pathways in which the core hole can be considered as either localized on one sulfur atom or delocalized between two indistinguishable sulfur atoms. This feat is accomplished by measuring photoelectron angular distributions within the frame of the molecule, directly probing entanglement or disentanglement of quantum pathways as a function of how the molecule dissociates.
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- R Guillemin
- 1] Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France [2] CNRS, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
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- 1] Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università di Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 1, I-34127 Trieste, Italy [2] Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali Unita' di Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy [3] CNR-IOM DEMOCRITOS, 34149 Trieste, Italy
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- 1] Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università di Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 1, I-34127 Trieste, Italy [2] Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali Unita' di Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy [3] CNR-IOM DEMOCRITOS, 34149 Trieste, Italy
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- 1] Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France [2] CNRS, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
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- 1] Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France [2] CNRS, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
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- 1] Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France [2] CNRS, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
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- 1] Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France [2] CNRS, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
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- 1] Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France [2] CNRS, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Physics, University of Oulu, Box 3000, 90014 Oulu, Finland
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, l'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, BP 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4003, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4003, USA
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- 1] Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France [2] CNRS, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France [3] Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, PO Box 516, 75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- 1] Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France [2] CNRS, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
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Bomme C, Guillemin R, Marin T, Journel L, Marchenko T, Dowek D, Trcera N, Pilette B, Avila A, Ringuenet H, Kushawaha RK, Simon M. Double momentum spectrometer for ion-electron vector correlations in dissociative photoionization. Rev Sci Instrum 2013; 84:103104. [PMID: 24182098 DOI: 10.1063/1.4824194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We have developed a new momentum spectrometer dedicated to momentum vector correlations in the context of deep core photoionization of atomic and molecular species in the gas phase. In this article, we describe the design and operation of the experimental setup. The capabilities of the apparatus are illustrated with a set of measurements done on the sulphur core 1s photoionization of gas-phase CS2.
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- C Bomme
- UPMC, Université Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Guillemin R, Sheinerman S, Bomme C, Journel L, Marin T, Marchenko T, Kushawaha RK, Trcera N, Piancastelli MN, Simon M. Ultrafast dynamics in postcollision interaction after multiple auger decays in argon 1s photoionization. Phys Rev Lett 2012; 109:013001. [PMID: 23031100 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.013001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Argon 1s photoionization followed by multiple Auger decays is investigated both experimentally, by means of photoelectron-ion coincidences, and theoretically. A strong influence of the different Auger decays on the photoelectron spectra is observed through postcollision interaction which shifts the maximum of the energy distribution and distorts the spectral shape. A good agreement between the calculated and measured spectra for selected Ar(n+) ions (n=1-5) allows one to estimate the widths (lifetimes) of the intermediate states for each specific decay pathway.
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- R Guillemin
- UPMC, Université Paris 06, LCPMR, 11 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
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