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most citedObservation of enhanced chiral asymmetries in the inner-shell photoionization of uniaxially oriented methyloxirane enantiomers

76 citations · 225 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Valence Ionization Of Water Clusters Formed Inside Helium Nanodroplets

Subhendu De, Sivarama Krishnan, Niklas Sheel +5

The ionization mechanisms of small HO/DO clusters embedded in helium nanodroplets (HNDs) irradiated with extreme ultraviolet photons of energy = 21.6 eV are investigat…

physics.atm-clus2025

XUV fluorescence as a probe of interatomic Coulombic decay of resonantly excited He nanodroplets

Keshav Sishodia, Ltaief Ben Ltaief, Niklas Scheel +15

Superfluid He nanodroplets resonantly excited by extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses exhibit complex relaxation dynamics, including the formation of metastable excited He atoms tr…

physics.atm-clus2024

Interatomic Coulombic decay in lithium-doped large helium nanodroplets induced by photoelectron impact excitation

L. Ben Ltaief, K. Sishodia, J. D. Asmussen +5

Irradiation of condensed matter with ionizing radiation generally causes direct photoionization as well as secondary processes that often dominate the ionization dynamics. Here, la…

physics.chem-ph2024

Observation of sequential three-body dissociation of camphor molecule -- a native frame approach

S. De, S. Mandal, Sanket Sen +11

The three-body dissociation dynamics of the dicationic camphor molecule (CHO) resulting from Auger decay are investigated using soft X-ray synchrotron radiatio…

physics.atm-clus2024

Fragmentation of Water Clusters Formed in Helium Nanodroplets by Charge Transfer and Penning Ionization

S. De, A. R. Abid, J. D. Asmussen +6

Helium nanodroplets ("HNDs") are widely used for forming tailor-made clusters and molecular complexes in a cold, transparent, and weakly-interacting matrix. Characterization of emb…

physics.atom-ph2023

Observation of interatomic Coulombic decay induced by double excitation of helium in nanodroplets

B. Bastian, J. D. Asmussen, L. Ben Ltaief +9

Interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) plays a crucial role in weakly bound complexes exposed to intense or high-energy radiation. So far, neutral or ionic atoms or molecules have been…

physics.atom-ph2023

Spectroscopically resolved resonant interatomic Coulombic decay in photoexcited large He nanodroplets

L. Ben Ltaief, K. Sishodia, R. Richter +8

Interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) processes play a crucial role in weakly bound complexes exposed to intense or high-energy radiation. Using large helium nanodroplets, we demonstra…

physics.atm-clus2023★ 7 cited

Secondary ionization of pyrimidine nucleobases and their microhydrated derivatives in helium nanodroplets

Jakob D. Asmussen, Abdul R. Abid, Akgash Sundaralingam +7

Radiation damage in biological systems by ionizing radiation is predominantly caused by secondary processes such as charge and energy transfer leading to the breaking of bonds in D…

physics.atm-clus2023★ 10 cited

Dopant ionization and efficiency of ion and electron ejection from helium nanodroplets

Jakob D. Asmussen, Ltaief Ben Ltaief, Keshav Sishodia +5

Photoionization spectroscopy and mass spectrometry of doped helium (He) nanodroplets rely on the ability to efficiently detect ions and/or electrons. Using a commercial quadrupole…

physics.atm-clus2023★ 9 cited

Electron energy loss and angular asymmetry induced by elastic scattering in helium droplets

Jakob D. Asmussen, Keshav Sishodia, Björn Bastian +10

Helium nanodroplets are ideal model systems to unravel the complex interaction of condensed matter with ionizing radiation. Here we study the effect of purely elastic electron scat…

physics.atm-clus2023★ 9 cited

Efficient Indirect Interatomic Coulombic Decay Induced by Photoelectron Impact Excitation in Large He Nanodroplets

L. Ben Ltaief, K. Sishodia, S. Mandal +7

Ionization of matter by energetic radiation generally causes complex secondary reactions which are hard to decipher. Using large helium nanodroplets irradiated by XUV photons, we s…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 15 cited

Bright continuously-tunable VUV source for ultrafast spectroscopy

Lucie Jurkovičová, Ltaief Ben Ltaief, Andreas Hult Roos +14

Ultrafast electron dynamics drive phenomena such as photochemical reactions, catalysis, and light harvesting. To capture such dynamics in real-time, femtosecond to attosecond light…

physics.atm-clus2022

A new endstation for extreme-ultraviolet spectroscopy of free clusters and nanodroplets

Björn Bastian, Jakob D. Asmussen, Ltaief Ben Ltaief +5

We present a new endstation for the AMOLine of the ASTRID2 synchrotron at Aarhus University, which combines a cluster and nanodroplet beam source with a velocity map imaging and ti…

physics.atm-clus2021★ 44 cited

Fourfold Differential Photoelectron Circular Dichroism

K. Fehre, N. M. Novikovskiy, S. Grundmann +28

We report on a joint experimental and theoretical study of photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) in methyloxirane. By detecting O 1s-photoelectrons in coincidence with fragment i…

physics.ins-det2021★ 19 cited

A Multipurpose End-Station for Atomic, Molecular and Optical Sciences and Coherent Diffractive Imaging at ELI Beamlines

Eva Klimešová, Olena Kulyk, Ziaul Hoque +20

We report on the status of a users' end-station, MAC: a Multipurpose station for Atomic, molecular and optical sciences and Coherent diffractive imaging, designed for studies of st…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 12 cited

A new route for enantio-sensitive structure determination by photoelectron scattering on molecules in the gas phase

K. Fehre, N. M. Novikovskiy, S. Grundmann +28

X-ray as well as electron diffraction are powerful tools for structure determination of molecules. Studies on randomly oriented molecules in the gas-phase address cases in which mo…

physics.atm-clus2020

Photoelectron spectroscopy of coronene molecules embedded in helium nanodroplets

L. Ben Ltaief, M. Shcherbinin, S. Mandal +5

We present the first measurement of a one-photon extreme-ultraviolet photoelectron spectrum (PES) of molecules embedded in superfluid helium nanodroplets. The PES of coronene is co…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 24 cited

Electron transfer mediated decay of alkali dimers attached to He nanodroplets

Ltaief Ben Ltaief, Mykola Shcherbinin, Suddhasattwa Mandel +8

Alkali metal dimers attached to the surface of helium nanodroplets are found to be efficiently doubly ionized by electron transfer-mediated decay (ETMD) when photoionizing the heli…

physics.atm-clus2019

Charge-exchange dominates long-range interatomic Coulombic decay of excited metal-doped He nanodroplets

L. Ben Ltaief, M. Shcherbinin, S. Mandal +9

Atoms and molecules attached to rare gas clusters are ionized by an interatomic autoionization process traditionally termed 'Penning ionization' when the host cluster is resonantly…

physics.atom-ph2016★ 76 cited

Observation of enhanced chiral asymmetries in the inner-shell photoionization of uniaxially oriented methyloxirane enantiomers

Maurice Tia, Martin Pitzer, Gregor Kastirke +38

Most large molecules are chiral in their structure: they exist as two enantiomers, which are mirror images of each other. Whereas the rovibronic sublevels of two enantiomers are al…