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@PHDTHESIS{Music:626053,
author = {Music, Valerija},
othercontributors = {Ehresmann, Arno and Ilchen, Markus},
title = {{T}owards the investigation of ultrafast dynamics in chiral
systems using free-electron lasers},
school = {University of Kassel},
type = {Dissertation},
reportid = {PUBDB-2025-01275},
pages = {156},
year = {2024},
note = {Dissertation, University of Kassel, 2024},
abstract = {Chiral molecules are life’s building blocks, making the
study of their ultrafast processes a pursuit across various
fundamental research fields. The results presented in this
dissertation contain methodological, technical and
scientific advancements that pave the way for future
time-resolved, site-specific investigations into chiral
photochemistry of randomly orientated molecules, using
photoelectron circular dichroism and free-electron lasers.
The high-repetitionrate free-electron lasers EuXFEL and
FLASH2 will soon deliver undulatorbased circularly polarized
pulses, opening new avenues for chiral studies. The
EuXFEL’s instrumentation and applicability for chiral
studies are presented based on the first performed
experiments at the SQS endstation. The ultrafast
spectroscopy technique of velocity map imaging and its
suitability to measure the angular distribution of
photoelectrons and ions in experiments targeting ultrafast
dynamics is presented in detail. The double-sided velocity
map imaging spectrometer, which was built and commissioned
in the frame of this work, is presented, including technical
details, and its simulated and experimentally retrieved
performance. Inside into a performed study combining
free-electron lasers and double-sided velocity map imaging
spectroscopy, in the light of chiral perspectives, is given
via the performed and here-presented experiment at FLASH1.
Here, highly intense XUV pulses 63 eV and 75 eV, addressing
the neutral and singly charged iodine 4d edge respectively,
were used to probe the optical laser-induced fragmentation
of the prototypical chiral molecule 1-iodo-2-methyl-butane
(C5H11I) in a pump-probe scheme using 267nm and 800nm
pulses. For charged Coulombic interaction of dissociating
photofragments, the optical-laser-pump FEL-probe scans
revealed that the molecule dissociates significantly slower
with an 800nm pump than with a 267nm pump. The results show
substantial wavelength and intensity dependence for the
dissociation dynamics of this prototypical chiral molecule.
In addition, electron-ion partial covariance imaging was
demonstrated and enabled isolating the I 4d atomic and
molecular levels. The outcomes of this dissertation provide
a basis for future time-resolving investigations of chiral
systems using free-electron lasers.},
keywords = {free-electron laser (Other) / chirality studies (Other) /
iodomethylbutane (Other) / pump-probe experiments (Other) /
VMI spectroscopy (Other) / mass spectroscopy (Other) /
Massenspektroskopie (Other) / Pump-Probe-Technik (Other) /
Chirale Verbindungen (Other) / Freie-Elektronen-Laser
(Other)},
cin = {FS DOOR-User},
ddc = {530},
cid = {$I:(DE-H253)FS_DOOR-User-20241023$},
pnm = {6G2 - FLASH (DESY) (POF4-6G2) / PHGS, VH-GS-500 - PIER
Helmholtz Graduate School $(2015_IFV-VH-GS-500)$ / DFG
project G:(GEPRIS)328961117 - SFB 1319: Extremes Licht zur
Analyse und Kontrolle molekularer Chiralität (ELCH)
(328961117)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-6G2 / $G:(DE-HGF)2015_IFV-VH-GS-500$ /
G:(GEPRIS)328961117},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)F-BL1-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
doi = {10.17170/KOBRA-202404159988},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/626053},
}