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Coulomb Explosion Imaging as a Tool to Distinguish Between Stereoisomers
Published on: August 18, 2017
Experimental separation of virtual photon exchange and electron transfer in interatomic coulombic decay of neon
T Jahnke1, A Czasch, M Schöffler
1Institut für Kernphysik, J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany. jahnke@atom.uni-frankfurt.de
Abstract:
We investigate the interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) of neon dimers following photoionization with simultaneous excitation of the ionized atom (shakeup) in a multiparticle coincidence experiment. We find that, depending on the parity of the excited state, which determines whether ICD takes place via virtual dipole photon emission or overlap of the wave functions, the decay happens at different internuclear distances, illustrating that nuclear dynamics heavily influence the electronic decay in the neon dimer.
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