Attosecond Delays in X-ray Molecular Ionization
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| author | Driver, Taran Mountney, Miles Wang, Jun Ortmann, Lisa Al-Haddad, Andre Berrah, Nora Bostedt, Christoph Champenois, Elio G. DiMauro, Louis F. Duris, Joseph Garratt, Douglas Glownia, James M. Guo, Zhaoheng Haxton, Daniel Isele, Erik Ivanov, Igor Ji, Jiabao Kamalov, Andrei Li, Siqi Lin, Ming-Fu Marangos, Jon P. Obaid, Razib O'Neal, Jordan T. Rosenberger, Philipp Shivaram, Niranjan H. Wang, Anna L. Walter, Peter Wolf, Thomas J. A. Wörner, Hans Jakob Zhang, Zhen Bucksbaum, Philip H. Kling, Matthias F. Landsman, Alexandra S. Lucchese, Robert R. Emmanouilidou, Agapi Marinelli, Agostino Cryan, James P. |
| author_facet | Driver, Taran Mountney, Miles Wang, Jun Ortmann, Lisa Al-Haddad, Andre Berrah, Nora Bostedt, Christoph Champenois, Elio G. DiMauro, Louis F. Duris, Joseph Garratt, Douglas Glownia, James M. Guo, Zhaoheng Haxton, Daniel Isele, Erik Ivanov, Igor Ji, Jiabao Kamalov, Andrei Li, Siqi Lin, Ming-Fu Marangos, Jon P. Obaid, Razib O'Neal, Jordan T. Rosenberger, Philipp Shivaram, Niranjan H. Wang, Anna L. Walter, Peter Wolf, Thomas J. A. Wörner, Hans Jakob Zhang, Zhen Bucksbaum, Philip H. Kling, Matthias F. Landsman, Alexandra S. Lucchese, Robert R. Emmanouilidou, Agapi Marinelli, Agostino Cryan, James P. |
| contents | The photoelectric effect is not truly instantaneous, but exhibits attosecond delays that can reveal complex molecular dynamics. Sub-femtosecond duration light pulses provide the requisite tools to resolve the dynamics of photoionization. Accordingly, the past decade has produced a large volume of work on photoionization delays following single photon absorption of an extreme ultraviolet (XUV) photon. However, the measurement of time-resolved core-level photoionization remained out of reach. The required x-ray photon energies needed for core-level photoionization were not available with attosecond tabletop sources. We have now measured the x-ray photoemission delay of core-level electrons, and here report unexpectedly large delays, ranging up to 700 attoseconds in NO near the oxygen K-shell threshold. These measurements exploit attosecond soft x-ray pulses from a free-electron laser (XFEL) to scan across the entire region near the K-shell threshold. Furthermore, we find the delay spectrum is richly modulated, suggesting several contributions including transient trapping of the photoelectron due to shape resonances, collisions with the Auger-Meitner electron that is emitted in the rapid non-radiative relaxation of the molecule, and multi-electron scattering effects. The results demonstrate how x-ray attosecond experiments, supported by comprehensive theoretical modelling, can unravel the complex correlated dynamics of core-level photoionization. |
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| spellingShingle | Attosecond Delays in X-ray Molecular Ionization Driver, Taran Mountney, Miles Wang, Jun Ortmann, Lisa Al-Haddad, Andre Berrah, Nora Bostedt, Christoph Champenois, Elio G. DiMauro, Louis F. Duris, Joseph Garratt, Douglas Glownia, James M. Guo, Zhaoheng Haxton, Daniel Isele, Erik Ivanov, Igor Ji, Jiabao Kamalov, Andrei Li, Siqi Lin, Ming-Fu Marangos, Jon P. Obaid, Razib O'Neal, Jordan T. Rosenberger, Philipp Shivaram, Niranjan H. Wang, Anna L. Walter, Peter Wolf, Thomas J. A. Wörner, Hans Jakob Zhang, Zhen Bucksbaum, Philip H. Kling, Matthias F. Landsman, Alexandra S. Lucchese, Robert R. Emmanouilidou, Agapi Marinelli, Agostino Cryan, James P. Atomic Physics The photoelectric effect is not truly instantaneous, but exhibits attosecond delays that can reveal complex molecular dynamics. Sub-femtosecond duration light pulses provide the requisite tools to resolve the dynamics of photoionization. Accordingly, the past decade has produced a large volume of work on photoionization delays following single photon absorption of an extreme ultraviolet (XUV) photon. However, the measurement of time-resolved core-level photoionization remained out of reach. The required x-ray photon energies needed for core-level photoionization were not available with attosecond tabletop sources. We have now measured the x-ray photoemission delay of core-level electrons, and here report unexpectedly large delays, ranging up to 700 attoseconds in NO near the oxygen K-shell threshold. These measurements exploit attosecond soft x-ray pulses from a free-electron laser (XFEL) to scan across the entire region near the K-shell threshold. Furthermore, we find the delay spectrum is richly modulated, suggesting several contributions including transient trapping of the photoelectron due to shape resonances, collisions with the Auger-Meitner electron that is emitted in the rapid non-radiative relaxation of the molecule, and multi-electron scattering effects. The results demonstrate how x-ray attosecond experiments, supported by comprehensive theoretical modelling, can unravel the complex correlated dynamics of core-level photoionization. |
| title | Attosecond Delays in X-ray Molecular Ionization |
| topic | Atomic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12764 |