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Vibrationally resolved decay width of interatomic Coulombic decay in HeNe.

Authors :
Trinter F
Williams JB
Weller M
Waitz M
Pitzer M
Voigtsberger J
Schober C
Kastirke G
Müller C
Goihl C
Burzynski P
Wiegandt F
Wallauer R
Kalinin A
Schmidt LP
Schöffler MS
Chiang YC
Gokhberg K
Jahnke T
Dörner R
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2013 Dec 06; Vol. 111 (23), pp. 233004. Date of Electronic Publication: 2013 Dec 04.
Publication Year :
2013

Abstract

We investigate the ionization of HeNe from below the He 1s3p excitation to the He ionization threshold. We observe HeNe+ ions with an enhancement by more than a factor of 60 when the He side couples resonantly to the radiation field. These ions are an experimental proof of a two-center resonant photoionization mechanism predicted by Najjari et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153002 (2010)]. Furthermore, our data provide electronic and vibrational state resolved decay widths of interatomic Coulombic decay in HeNe dimers. We find that the interatomic Coulombic decay lifetime strongly increases with increasing vibrational state.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1079-7114
Volume :
111
Issue :
23
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
24476268
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.233004