Ultrafast relaxation dynamics of uracil probed via strong field dissociative ionization

Spiridoula Matsika1, Michael Spanner, Marija Kotur

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Temple University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States.

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