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Journal Article | PUBDB-2021-04797 |
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2021
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Washington, DC
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.1c06033 doi:10.3204/PUBDB-2021-04797
Abstract: We performed a time-resolved spectroscopy experixment on the dissociation of oxygen molecules after the interactionwith intense extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) light from the free-electronlaser in Hamburg at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron. Using anXUV-pump/XUV-probe transient-absorption geometry with asplit-and-delay unit, we observe the onset of electronic transitionsin the O$^{2+}$ cation near 50 eV photon energy, marking the end ofthe progression from a molecule to two isolated atoms. We observetwo different time scales of 290 ± 53 and 180 ± 76 fs for theemergence of different ionic transitions, indicating differentdissociation pathways taken by the departing oxygen atoms.With regard to the emerging opportunities of tuning the centralfrequencies of pump and probe pulses and of increasing the probe−pulse bandwidth, future pump−probe transient-absorptionexperiments are expected to provide a detailed view of the coupled nuclear and electronic dynamics during molecular dissociation
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