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Dynamics of electromagnetically induced water molecule fragmentation

Atomic Physics 2026-03-27 v1

Abstract

The development of intense high-energy radiation sources and the improvement of techniques for detecting charged fragments have made possible experiments on multiple ionization of a molecule with registration of the momentum and charge of dissociation products in coincidence. This technique allows to determine (`fix') a molecular geometry at the time of fragmentation and called fixed-in-space molecule. In this work, the dynamics the water molecule dissociation fragments resulting from interaction with intense X-ray radiation has been studied. The charge distribution of oxygen ions was calculated, Newton diagrams were constructed for fragments - protons and the oxygen ion - for various charge states of the latter, and the released kinetic energy was evaluated. Calculations were performed using the [1]code for parameters close to [2]. The predictions for the different pulse parameters are done.

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@article{arxiv.2603.24757,
  title  = {Dynamics of electromagnetically induced water molecule fragmentation},
  author = {Anton V. Bibikov and Sergei N. Yudin and Maria M. Popova and Alexei N. Grum-Grzhimailo and Elena V. Gryzlova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.24757},
  year   = {2026}
}

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13 pages, 10 figures

R2 v1 2026-07-01T11:38:01.093Z