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@ARTICLE{Thompson:639396,
author = {Thompson, Henry J. and Bonanomi, Matteo and Pedersen, Jacob
and Plekan, Oksana and Pal, Nitish and Grazioli, Cesare and
Prince, Kevin C. and Tenorio, Bruno N. C. and Devetta,
Michele and Faccialà, Davide and Vozzi, Caterina and
Piseri, Paolo and Danailov, Miltcho B. and Demidovich,
Alexander and Brynes, Alexander D. and Simoncig, Alberto and
Zangrando, Marco and Coreno, Marcello and Feifel, Raimund
and Squibb, Richard J. and Holland, David M. P. and Allum,
Felix and Rolles, Daniel and Decleva, Piero and Schuurman,
Michael S. and Forbes, Ruaridh and Coriani, Sonia and
Callegari, Carlo and Minns, Russell S. and Di Fraia,
Michele},
title = {{S}hake-{D}own {S}pectroscopy as {S}tate- and
{S}ite-{S}pecific {P}robe of {U}ltrafast {C}hemical
{D}ynamics},
journal = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
volume = {147},
number = {36},
issn = {0002-7863},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {ACS Publications},
reportid = {PUBDB-2025-04490},
pages = {32851 - 32860},
year = {2025},
note = {CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter},
abstract = {Tracking the multifarious ultrafast electronic and
structural changes occurring in a molecule during a
photochemical transformation is a challenging endeavor that
benefits from recent experimental and computational progress
in time-resolved techniques. Measurements of valence
electronic states, which provide a global picture of the
bonding structure of the molecule, and core electronic
states, which provide insight into the local environment,
traditionally require different approaches and are often
studied separately. Here, we demonstrate that X-ray pulses
from a seeded free-electron laser (FEL) enable the
measurement of high-resolution, time-resolved X-ray
photoelectron spectra (XPS) that capture weak satellite
states resulting from shake-down processes in a
valence-excited molecule. This approach effectively combines
the advantages of both valence- and core-state
investigations. We applied this method to investigate
photoexcited CS2 molecules, where the role of internal
conversion (IC) and intersystem crossing (ISC) in
determining the predissociation dynamics is controversial.
We present XPS spectra from photoexcited CS2, obtained at
the FERMI FEL. High-resolution measurements, compared to the
corresponding spectra obtained from accurate multireference
quantum chemical calculations, reveal that shake-down
satellite channels are highly sensitive to both valence
electronic and geometric changes. Previous studies of the
predissociation dynamics have led to uncertain assignments
of the branching between singlet and triplet excited states.
We derive a propensity rule that demonstrates the
spin-selectivity of the shake-downs. This selectivity allows
us to unequivocally assign contributions from the bright and
dark singlet excited states, with populations tracked along
the predissociation dynamic pathway.},
cin = {CFEL-DESYT},
ddc = {540},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)CFEL-DESYT-20160930},
pnm = {631 - Matter – Dynamics, Mechanisms and Control
(POF4-631) / Ex-Net-0002-Phase2-3 - Advanced Imaging of
Matter: Structure, Dynamics and Control on the Atomic Scale
- AIM $(2018_Ex-Net-0002-Phase2-3)$},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-631 / $G:(DE-HGF)2018_Ex-Net-0002-Phase2-3$},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.1021/jacs.5c09162},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/639396},
}