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20092026
most citedX-ray diffraction from isolated and strongly aligned gas-phase molecules with a free-electron laser

272 citations · 1.3k across the 43 of their papers we have counts for

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47 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Heteroatom Position Controls Ultrafast Photodynamics of Oxazole and Isoxazole

Briony Downes-Ward, Paul Javed, Huynh V. S. Lam +27

The ultrafast photochemistry of heterocyclic compounds is central to photobiology and materials chemistry, yet direct experimental observation of their structural dynamics remains…

physics.chem-ph2026

X-ray Driven Trihydrogen Formation on Silica Nanosurfaces

Samuel Sahel-Schackis, Adam Summers, Ritika Dagar +29

The trihydrogen cation () initiates the ion-molecule reactions that build molecular complexity in interstellar space. Whether its canonical formation reaction, $\ma…

physics.chem-ph2026

Neural Network Based Molecular Structure Retrieval from Coulomb Explosion Imaging Data

Amirhossein Ghanaatian, Aravinth K. Ravi, Joshua Stallbaumer +6

Determining the structure and following the structural evolution of molecules undergoing chemical reactions is one of the key goals of ultrafast molecular physics and chemistry. Re…

physics.chem-ph2026

Probing the structure of cyclic hydrocarbon molecules with X-ray-induced Coulomb explosion imaging

Kurtis D. Borne, Rebecca Boll, Thomas M. Baumann +27

Coulomb explosion imaging (CEI) is a powerful experimental technique that maps a molecule's geometric structure onto the momenta of ionic molecular fragments produced by rapid mult…

physics.atm-clus2025

Decoding Molecular Geometries in Coulomb Explosion Imaging via Physics-Informed Deep Neural Network

Xingyu Guo, Enliang Wang, Wenguang Wu +8

Determining the absolute configuration of gas-phase molecules in position-space has long been a fundamental challenge in molecular physics. While strong-field-induced Coulomb explo…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Unraveling real-time chemical shifts in the ultrafast regime

Daniel E. Rivas, Lorenzo Paoloni, Rebecca Boll +21

Traditional x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) relies upon a direct mapping between the photoelectron binding energies and the local chemical environment, which is well-charact…