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most citedProbing ultrafast ππ*/nπ* internal conversion in organic chromophores via K-edge resonant absorption

198 citations · 1.1k across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

physics.ins-det2024

Design and Performance of a Magnetic Bottle Electron Spectrometer for High-Energy Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Kurtis Borne, Jordan T ONeal, Jun Wang +19

We describe the design and performance of a magnetic bottle electron spectrometer~(MBES) for high-energy electron spectroscopy. Our design features a ~m long electron drif…

physics.atom-ph2024

Attosecond Delays in X-ray Molecular Ionization

Taran Driver, Miles Mountney, Jun Wang +34

The photoelectric effect is not truly instantaneous, but exhibits attosecond delays that can reveal complex molecular dynamics. Sub-femtosecond duration light pulses provide the re…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 1 cited

Experimental Demonstration of Attosecond Pump-Probe Spectroscopy with an X-ray Free-Electron Laser

Zhaoheng Guo, Taran Driver, Sandra Beauvarlet +47

Pump-probe experiments with sub-femtosecond resolution are the key to understanding electronic dynamics in quantum systems. Here we demonstrate the generation and control of sub-fe…

physics.chem-ph2023

Time-resolved imaging of an elusive molecular reaction: hydrogen roaming in acetonitrile

Debadarshini Mishra, Aaron C. LaForge, Lauren M. Gorman +3

Roaming has been proposed as a possible mechanism contributing to molecular dissociation in which the fragments can move around one another at relatively large intermolecular dista…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 6 cited

Time-resolved quantum beats in the fluorescence of helium resonantly excited by XUV radiation

AC LaForge, A Benediktovitch, V Sukharnikov +18

We report on the observation of time-resolved quantum beats in the helium fluorescence from the transition 1s3p -> 1s2s, where the initial state is excited by XUV free-electron las…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 21 cited

Resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization in the x-ray regime

Aaron C. LaForge, Sang-Kil Son, Debadarshini Mishra +16

Here, we report on the nonlinear ionization of argon atoms in the short wavelength regime using ultraintense x rays from the European XFEL. After sequential multiphoton ionization,…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 97 cited

Attosecond Coherent Electron Motion in Auger-Meitner Decay

Siqi Li, Taran Driver, Philipp Rosenberger +38

In quantum systems, coherent superpositions of electronic states evolve on ultrafast timescales (few femtosecond to attosecond, 1 as = 0.001 fs = 10^{-18} s), leading to a time dep…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 8 cited

Correlation Driven Transient Hole Dynamics Resolved in Space and Time in the Isopropanol Molecule

T. Barillot, O. Alexander, B. Cooper +46

The possibility of suddenly ionized molecules undergoing extremely fast electron hole dynamics prior to significant structural change was first recognized more than 20 years ago an…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 25 cited

Transient Resonant Auger-Meitner Spectra of Photoexcited Thymine

Thomas J. A. Wolf, Alexander C. Paul, Sarai D. Folkestad +15

We present the first investigation of excited state dynamics by resonant Auger-Meitner spectroscopy (also known as resonant Auger spectroscopy) using the nucleobase thymine as an e…

physics.chem-ph2019★ 56 cited

Attosecond Transient Absorption Spooktroscopy: a ghost imaging approach to ultrafast absorption spectroscopy

Taran Driver, Siqi Li, Elio G. Champenois +38

The recent demonstration of isolated attosecond pulses from an X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) opens the possibility for probing ultrafast electron dynamics at X-ray wavelengths.…

physics.ins-det2019★ 19 cited

A Coincidence Velocity Map Imaging Spectrometer for Ions and High-Energy Electrons to Study Inner-Shell Photoionization of Gas-Phase Molecules

Utuq Ablikim, Cédric Bomme, Timur Osipov +11

We report on the design and performance of a double-sided coincidence velocity map imaging spectrometer optimized for electron-ion and ion-ion coincidence experiments studying inne…

physics.atom-ph2019

Two-photon resonant excitation of interatomic coulombic decay in neon dimers

A Dubrouil, M Reduzzi, M Devetta +21

The recent availability of intense and ultrashort extreme ultraviolet sources opens the possibility to investigate ultrafast electronic relaxation processes in matter in an unprece…

physics.atom-ph2019

Time-resolved observation of interatomic Coulombic decay induced by two-photon double excitation of Ne

T. Takanashi, N. V. Golubev, C. Callegari +46

The hitherto unexplored two-photon doubly-excited states [Ne()] were experimentally identified using the seeded, fully coherent, intense extreme ultraviolet…

physics.app-ph2018★ 22 cited

XCALIB: a focal spot calibrator for intense X-ray free-electron laser pulses based on the charge state distributions of light atoms

Koudai Toyota, Zoltan Jurek, Sang-Kil Son +7

We develop the XCALIB toolkit to calibrate the beam profile of an X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at the focal spot based on the experimental charge state distributions (CSDs) of…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 16 cited

LCLS in - photon out: fluorescence measurement of neon using soft x-rays

Razib Obaid, Christian Buth, Georgi L. Dakovski +10

We measured the fluorescence photon yield of neon upon soft x-ray ionization (~1200 eV) from the x-ray free electron laser at Linac Coherent Light Source, and demonstrated the usag…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 55 cited

Probing the UV-Induced Photodissociation of CHI and CHFI with Femtosecond Time-Resolved Coulomb Explosion Imaging at FLASH

Kasra Amini, Evgeny Savelyev, Felix Brauße +32

We explore time-resolved Coulomb explosion induced by intense, extreme ultraviolet (XUV) femtosecond pulses from the FLASH free-electron laser as a method to image photo-induced mo…

physics.chem-ph2017★ 32 cited

Alignment, Orientation, and Coulomb Explosion of Difluoroiodobenzene Studied with the Pixel Imaging Mass Spectrometry (PImMS) Camera

Kasra Amini, Rebecca Boll, Alexandra Lauer +33

Laser-induced adiabatic alignment and mixed-field orientation of 2,6-difluoroiodobenzene (C6H3F2I) molecules are probed by Coulomb explosion imaging following either near-infrared…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 18 cited

Neon in ultrashort and intense x rays from free electron lasers

Christian Buth, Randolf Beerwerth, Razib Obaid +3

We theoretically examine neon atoms in ultrashort and intense x rays from free electron lasers and compare our results with data from experiments conducted at the Linac Coherent Li…

physics.chem-ph2017★ 29 cited

Isomer-Dependent Fragmentation Dynamics of Inner-Shell Photoionized Difluoroiodobenzene

Utuq Ablikim, Cédric Bomme, Evgeny Savelyev +14

The fragmentation dynamics of 2,6- and 3,5-difluoroiodobenzene after iodine 4 inner-shell photoionization with soft X-rays are studied using coincident electron and ion momentum…

physics.chem-ph2016★ 198 cited

Probing ultrafast ππ*/nπ* internal conversion in organic chromophores via K-edge resonant absorption

T. J. A. Wolf, R. H. Myhre, J. P. Cryan +21

Organic chromophores with heteroatoms possess an important excited state relaxation channel from an optically allowed ππ* to a dark nπ*state. We exploit the element and site specif…

physics.data-an2016★ 106 cited

Machine learning applied to single-shot x-ray diagnostics in an XFEL

A. Sanchez-Gonzalez, P. Micaelli, C. Olivier +39

X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) are the only sources currently able to produce bright few-fs pulses with tunable photon energies from 100 eV to more than 10 keV. Due to the stoc…

physics.chem-ph2015★ 9 cited

Rate equations for nitrogen molecules in ultrashort and intense x-ray pulses

Ji-Cai Liu, Nora Berrah, Lorenz S. Cederbaum +4

We study theoretically the quantum dynamics of nitrogen molecules (N) exposed to intense and ultrafast x-rays at a wavelength of 1.1 nm (1100 eV photon energy) from the Linac C…

physics.acc-ph2013★ 180 cited

Double core hole production in N2: Beating the Auger clock

L. Fang, M. Hoener, O. Gessner +16

We investigate the creation of double K-shell holes in N2 molecules via sequential absorption of two photons on a timescale shorter than the core-hole lifetime by using intense x-r…

physics.chem-ph2013★ 1 cited

Delayed Ultrafast X-ray Auger Probing (DUXAP) of Nucleobase Ultraviolet Photoprotection

B. K. McFarland, J. P. Farrell, S. Miyabe +28

We present a new method for ultrafast spectroscopy of molecular photoexcited dynamics. The technique uses a pair of femtosecond pulses: a photoexcitation pulse initiating excited s…