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Photophysics of indole upon x-ray absorption

Atomic and Molecular Clusters 2018-08-02 v2 Atomic Physics Chemical Physics

Abstract

A photofragmentation study of gas-phase indole (C8_8H7_7N) upon single-photon ionization at a photon energy of 420 eV is presented. Indole was primarily inner-shell ionized at its nitrogen and carbon 1s1s orbitals. Electrons and ions were measured in coincidence by means of velocity map imaging. The angular relationship between ionic fragments is discussed along with the possibility to use the angle-resolved coincidence detection to perform experiments on molecules that are strongly oriented in their recoil-frame. The coincident measurement of electrons and ions revealed fragmentation-pathway-dependent electron spectra, linking the structural fragmentation dynamics to different electronic excitations. Evidence for photoelectron-impact self-ionization was observed.

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@article{arxiv.1802.02964,
  title  = {Photophysics of indole upon x-ray absorption},
  author = {Thomas Kierspel and Cédric Bomme and Michele Di Fraia and Joss Wiese and Denis Anielski and Sadia Bari and Rebecca Boll and Benjamin Erk and Jens S. Kienitz and Nele L. M. Müller and Daniel Rolles and Jens Viefhaus and Sebastian Trippel and Jochen Küpper},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.02964},
  year   = {2018}
}

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11 pages, 6 figures