Time-resolved experiments on gas-phase atoms and molecules with XUV and X-ray free-electron lasers

D Rolles - Advances in Physics: X, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
Over the last 20 years, XUV and X-ray free-electron lasers have enabled a wide variety of
time-resolved experiments that have dramatically advanced our understanding of ultrafast …

Atomic, molecular and optical physics applications of longitudinally coherent and narrow bandwidth Free-Electron Lasers

C Callegari, AN Grum-Grzhimailo, KL Ishikawa… - Physics Reports, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Short wavelength Free-Electron Lasers (FELs) are among the newest light sources
available to scientists to probe a wide range of phenomena, with chemical, physical and …

Coulomb explosion imaging of small polyatomic molecules with ultrashort x-ray pulses

X Li, A Rudenko, MS Schöffler, N Anders… - Physical review …, 2022‏ - APS
Ultrashort x-ray pulses from free-electron lasers can efficiently charge up and trigger the full
fragmentation of molecules. By coincident detection of up to five ions resulting from rapid …

Measuring the photoelectron emission delay in the molecular frame

J Rist, K Klyssek, NM Novikovskiy, M Kircher… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
How long does it take to emit an electron from an atom? This question has intrigued
scientists for decades. As such emission times are in the attosecond regime, the advent of …

[HTML][HTML] The beam transport system for the Small Quantum Systems instrument at the European XFEL: optical layout and first commissioning results

T Mazza, TM Baumann, R Boll, A De Fanis… - Synchrotron …, 2023‏ - journals.iucr.org
The Small Quantum Systems instrument is one of the six operating instruments of the
European XFEL, dedicated to the atomic, molecular and cluster physics communities. The …

A localized view on molecular dissociation via electron-ion partial covariance

F Allum, V Music, L Inhester, R Boll, B Erk… - Communications …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Inner-shell photoelectron spectroscopy provides an element-specific probe of molecular
structure, as core-electron binding energies are sensitive to the chemical environment. Short …

Trends in angle-resolved molecular photoelectron spectroscopy

D Dowek, P Decleva - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The field of angle-resolved molecular photoelectron spectroscopy is reviewed, with
emphasis on foundations and most recent applications in different regimes of light–matter …

Double Core-Hole Generation in Molecules Using an X-Ray Free-Electron Laser: Molecular-Frame Photoelectron Angular Distributions

G Kastirke, MS Schöffler, M Weller, J Rist, R Boll… - Physical review …, 2020‏ - APS
We report on a multiparticle coincidence experiment performed at the European X-ray Free-
Electron Laser at the Small Quantum Systems instrument using a COLTRIMS reaction …

Rydberg macrodimers: Diatomic molecules on the micrometer scale

S Hollerith, J Zeiher - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Controlling molecular binding at the level of single atoms is one of the holy grails of quantum
chemistry. Rydberg macrodimers─ bound states between highly excited Rydberg atoms─ …

Methods of coherent X-ray diffraction imaging

PA Prosekov, VL Nosik, AE Blagov - Crystallography reports, 2021‏ - Springer
Methods of coherent X-ray diffraction imaging of the spatial structure of noncrystalline
objects and nanocrystals (nanostructures) are considered. Particular attention is paid to the …