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Inelastic scattering of broadband electron wave packets driven by an intense mid-infrared laser field

Atomic Physics 2015-05-30 v1 Optics

Abstract

Intense, 100 fs laser pulses at 3.2 and 3.6 um are used to generate, by multi-photon ionization, broadband wave packets with up to 400 eV of kinetic energy and charge states up to Xe+6. The multiple ionization pathways are well described by a white electron wave packet and field-free inelastic cross sections, averaged over the intensity-dependent energy distribution for (e,ne) electron impact ionization. The analysis also suggests a contribution from a 4d core excitation in xenon.

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@article{arxiv.1109.0301,
  title  = {Inelastic scattering of broadband electron wave packets driven by an intense mid-infrared laser field},
  author = {A. D. DiChiara and E. Sistrunk and C. I. Blaga and U. B. Szafruga and P. Agostini and L. F. DiMauro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.0301},
  year   = {2015}
}