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Title: From synchrotrons for XFELs: the soft x-ray near-edge spectrum of the ESCA molecule

Abstract

A predictive understanding of soft x-ray near-edge absorption spectra of small molecules is an enduring theoretical challenge and of current interest for x-ray probes of molecular dynamics. We report the experimental absorption spectrum for the electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA) molecule (ethyl trifluoroacetate) near the carbon 1s absorption edge between 285-300 eV. Furthermore, the ESCA molecule with four chemically distinct carbon sites has previously served as a theoretical benchmark for photoelectron spectra and now for photoabsorption spectra. We report a simple edge-specific approach for systematically expanding standard basis sets to properly describe diffuse Rydberg orbitals and the importance of triple excitations in equation-of-motion coupled-cluster calculations of the energy interval between valence and Rydberg excitations.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4];  [4];  [1];  [5]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [5];  [6]; ORCiD logo [3];  [2]; ORCiD logo [7]
  1. Lund Univ. (Sweden)
  2. Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
  3. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
  4. Univ. of Oulu (Finland)
  5. Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France). CNRS, Lab. de Chimie Physique - Matiere et Rayonnement, LCPMR
  6. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland); Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (Switzerland). LUXS Lab. for Ulstrafast X-ray Sciences
  7. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). James Franck Inst.
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division
OSTI Identifier:
1776834
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Physics. B, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 53; Journal Issue: 24; Journal ID: ISSN 0953-4075
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; NEXAFS; XANES; x-ray spectroscopy

Citation Formats

Sorensen, S. L., Zheng, X., Southworth, S. H., Patanen, M., Kokkonen, E., Oostenrijk, B., Travnikova, O., Marchenko, T., Simon, M., Bostedt, C., Doumy, G., Cheng, L., and Young, L. From synchrotrons for XFELs: the soft x-ray near-edge spectrum of the ESCA molecule. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1088/1361-6455/abc6bd.
Sorensen, S. L., Zheng, X., Southworth, S. H., Patanen, M., Kokkonen, E., Oostenrijk, B., Travnikova, O., Marchenko, T., Simon, M., Bostedt, C., Doumy, G., Cheng, L., & Young, L. From synchrotrons for XFELs: the soft x-ray near-edge spectrum of the ESCA molecule. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/abc6bd
Sorensen, S. L., Zheng, X., Southworth, S. H., Patanen, M., Kokkonen, E., Oostenrijk, B., Travnikova, O., Marchenko, T., Simon, M., Bostedt, C., Doumy, G., Cheng, L., and Young, L. Wed . "From synchrotrons for XFELs: the soft x-ray near-edge spectrum of the ESCA molecule". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/abc6bd. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1776834.
@article{osti_1776834,
title = {From synchrotrons for XFELs: the soft x-ray near-edge spectrum of the ESCA molecule},
author = {Sorensen, S. L. and Zheng, X. and Southworth, S. H. and Patanen, M. and Kokkonen, E. and Oostenrijk, B. and Travnikova, O. and Marchenko, T. and Simon, M. and Bostedt, C. and Doumy, G. and Cheng, L. and Young, L.},
abstractNote = {A predictive understanding of soft x-ray near-edge absorption spectra of small molecules is an enduring theoretical challenge and of current interest for x-ray probes of molecular dynamics. We report the experimental absorption spectrum for the electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA) molecule (ethyl trifluoroacetate) near the carbon 1s absorption edge between 285-300 eV. Furthermore, the ESCA molecule with four chemically distinct carbon sites has previously served as a theoretical benchmark for photoelectron spectra and now for photoabsorption spectra. We report a simple edge-specific approach for systematically expanding standard basis sets to properly describe diffuse Rydberg orbitals and the importance of triple excitations in equation-of-motion coupled-cluster calculations of the energy interval between valence and Rydberg excitations.},
doi = {10.1088/1361-6455/abc6bd},
journal = {Journal of Physics. B, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics},
number = 24,
volume = 53,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 09 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Wed Dec 09 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}

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