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Photoelectron Imaging of Anions Illustrated by 310 Nm Detachment of F−
Published on: July 27, 2018
Photoionization cross section of Xe+ ion in the pure 5p5 2P3/2 ground level
R Thissen1, J M Bizau, C Blancard
1Laboratoire de Planétologie de Grenoble, UMR 5109 du CNRS, Bâtiment D de Physique, B.P. 53, 38041 Grenoble, France.
Abstract:
Coupling an ion trap with synchrotron radiation is shown here to be a powerful approach to measure photoionization cross sections on ionic species relaxed in their ground state. The photoionization efficiency curve of Xe+ ions stored in a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance ion trap was recorded at ELETTRA in the 20-23 eV photon energy range. Absolute cross sections were derived by comparison of the photoionization yield of Xe+ with measurements from the ASTRID merged-beam experiment. Multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock calculations were performed for the interpretation of these new data.
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