Two-XUV-photon double ionization of neon

Orfanos, I.; Skantzakis, E.; Nayak, A.; Dumergue, M.; Kühn, S.; Sansone, G.; Kling, M. F.; Schröder, H.; Bergues, B.; Csontos, Janos; Toth, Szabolics; Börzönyi, Ádám; Kahaly, S.; Varjú, K.; Forembski, A.; Nikolopoulos, L. A. A.; Tzallas, P.; Charalambidis, D.

doi:10.1103/physreva.106.043117

Two-XUV-photon double ionization of neon

Journal Article · Wed Oct 26 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Physical Review A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.106.043117· OSTI ID:2006626

Orfanos, I. ^[1]; Skantzakis, E. ^[2]; Nayak, A. ^[3]; Dumergue, M. ^[4]; Kühn, S. ^[4]; Sansone, G. ^[5]; Kling, M. F. ^[6]; Schröder, H. ^[7]; Bergues, B. ^[8]; Csontos, Janos ^[4]; Toth, Szabolics ^[4]; Börzönyi, Ádám ^[4]; Kahaly, S. ^[4]; Varjú, K. ^[4]; Forembski, A. ^[9]; Nikolopoulos, L. A. A. ^[9]; Tzallas, P. ^[10]; Charalambidis, D. ^[11]

Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas, Heraklion (Greece); SLAC
Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas, Heraklion (Greece)
Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI-HU) Non-Profit Ltd., Szeged (Hungary); Univ. of Szeged (Hungary)
Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI-HU) Non-Profit Ltd., Szeged (Hungary)
Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI-HU) Non-Profit Ltd., Szeged (Hungary); Univ. of Freiburg (Germany)
Ludwig Maximilian Univ. of Munich, Munich (Germany); Max Planck Institut fur Quantenoptik, Garching (Germany); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Max Planck Institut fur Quantenoptik, Garching (Germany)
Ludwig Maximilian Univ. of Munich, Munich (Germany); Max Planck Institut fur Quantenoptik, Garching (Germany)
Dublin City University (Ireland)
Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas, Heraklion (Greece); Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI-HU) Non-Profit Ltd., Szeged (Hungary)
Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas, Heraklion (Greece); Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI-HU) Non-Profit Ltd., Szeged (Hungary); Univ. of Crete, Heraklion (Greece)

Two XUV-photon double ionization of Ne, induced by an intense few-pulse attosecond train with a ~ 4 fs envelope duration is investigated experimentally and theoretically. The experiment is performed at ELI-ALPS utilizing the recently constructed 10 Hz gas phase high-order harmonic generation SYLOS GHHG-COMPACT beamline. A total pulse energy up to ~1 {\mu}J generated in Argon in conjunction with high reflectivity optics in the XUV region, allowed the observation of the doubly charged state of Ne induced by 40 eV central XUV photon energies. The interaction of the intense attosecond pulse train with Ne is also theoretically studied via a second-order time dependent perturbation theory equations-of-motion. Further, the results of this work, combined with the feasibility of conducting XUV-pump-XUV-probe experiments, constitute a powerful tool for many potential applications. Those include attosecond pulse metrology as well as time resolved investigations of the dynamics underlying direct and sequential double ionization and their electron correlation effects.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT); Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI); USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 2006626

Journal Information:: Physical Review A, Journal Name: Physical Review A Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 106; ISSN 2469-9926

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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