Probing and extracting the structure of vibrating SF6 molecules with inner-shell photoelectrons

Nguyen, Ngoc-Ty; Lucchese, R. R.; Lin, C. D.; Le, Anh-Thu

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.93.063419

Title: Probing and extracting the structure of vibrating ${SF}_{6}$ molecules with inner-shell photoelectrons

Journal Article · Tue Jun 21 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.063419· OSTI ID:1461975

Nguyen, Ngoc-Ty ^[1]; Lucchese, R. R. ^[2]; Lin, C. D. ^[3]; Le, Anh-Thu ^[3]

Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States). Dept. of Physics; Ho Chi Minh City Univ. of Education (Vietnam). Dept. of Physics
Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States). Dept. of Physics

In this paper, we propose a scheme for probing the structure of vibrating molecules with photoelectrons generated from ultrashort soft-x-ray pulses. As an example we analyze below-100-eV photoelectrons liberated from the $S (2 p)$ orbital of vibrating ${SF}_{6}$ molecules to image very small structural changes of molecular vibration. In particular, photoionization cross sections and photoelectron angular distributions (PAD) at nonequilibrium geometries can be retrieved accurately with photoelectrons near the shape resonance at 13 eV. Finally, this is achieved with a pump-probe scheme, in which the symmetric stretch mode is first Raman excited predominantly by a relatively short laser pulse and then later probed at different time delays by a few-femtosecond soft-x-ray pulse with photon energy near 200 eV.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-86ER13491; IIA-1430493

OSTI ID:: 1461975

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1258713

Journal Information:: Physical Review A, Vol. 93, Issue 6; ISSN 2469-9926

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Language:: English

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