Low-Energy Nondipole Effects in Molecular Nitrogen Valence-Shell Photoionization
- Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4003 (United States)
- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States)
- Synchrotron Radiation Center, University of Wisconsin, Stoughton, Wisconsin 53589 (United States)
- Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Noethnitzer Strasse 38, D-01189 Dresden (Germany)
- A. A. Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 (United States)
- San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, La Jolla, California 92093 (United States)
Observations are reported for the first time of significant nondipole effects in the photoionization of the outer-valence orbitals of diatomic molecules. Measured nondipole angular-distribution parameters for the 3{sigma}{sub g}, 1{pi}{sub u}, and 2{sigma}{sub u} shells of N{sub 2} exhibit spectral variations with incident photon energies from thresholds to {approx}200 eV which are attributed via concomitant calculations to particular final-state symmetry waves arising from (E1)(multiply-in-circle sign)(M1,E2) radiation-matter interactions first-order in photon momentum. Comparisons with previously reported K-edge studies in N{sub 2} verify linear scaling with photon momentum, accounting in part for the significantly enhanced nondipole behavior observed in inner-shell ionization at correspondingly higher momentum values in this molecule.
- OSTI ID:
- 20860786
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 97, Issue 10; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.103006; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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