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Time-energy mapping of photoelectron angular distribution: application to photoionization stereodynamics of nitric
Yoshi-Ichi Suzuki1, Ying Tang, Toshinori Suzuki
1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Abstract:
The time-energy mapping of the photoionization integral cross section and laboratory-frame photoelectron angular distribution is used to study photoionization stereodynamics of a diatomic molecule. The general theoretical formalism [Y. Suzuki and T. Suzuki, Mol. Phys., 2007, 105, 1675] is simplified for application to a diatomic molecule, and a high-resolution photoelectron imaging apparatus is used to determine the transition dipole moments and phase shifts of photoelectron partial waves in near-threshold and non-dissociative photoionization of NO from the A(2)Σ(+) state. The transition dipoles and phase shifts thus determined are in reasonable agreement with those by state-to-state photoionization experiment and Schwinger variational calculations. The difference of the phase shifts from those expected from the quantum defects of Rydberg states suggests occurrence of weak hybridization of different l-waves, in addition to the well-known s-d super complex. The circular dichroism in photoelectron angular distribution is also simulated from our results.
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