Cold molecular ions via autoionization below the dissociation limit
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| author | Schaller, Sascha Seifert, Johannes Valtolina, Giacomo Fielicke, André Sartakov, Boris G. Meijer, Gerard |
| author_facet | Schaller, Sascha Seifert, Johannes Valtolina, Giacomo Fielicke, André Sartakov, Boris G. Meijer, Gerard |
| contents | Several diatomic transition metal oxides, rare-earth metal oxides and fluorides have the unusual property that their bond dissociation energy is larger than their ionization energy. In these molecules, bound levels above the ionization energy can be populated via strong, resonant transitions from the ground state. The only relevant decay channel of these levels is autoionization; predissociation is energetically not possible and radiative decay is many orders of magnitude slower. Starting from translationally cold neutral molecules, translationally cold molecular ions can thus be produced with very high efficiency. By populating bound levels just above the ionization energy, internally cold molecular ions, exclusively occupying the lowest rotational level, are produced. This is experimentally shown here for the dysprosium monoxide molecule, DyO, for which the lowest bond dissociation energy is determined to be 0.0831(6) eV above the ionization energy. |
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| spellingShingle | Cold molecular ions via autoionization below the dissociation limit Schaller, Sascha Seifert, Johannes Valtolina, Giacomo Fielicke, André Sartakov, Boris G. Meijer, Gerard Atomic and Molecular Clusters Several diatomic transition metal oxides, rare-earth metal oxides and fluorides have the unusual property that their bond dissociation energy is larger than their ionization energy. In these molecules, bound levels above the ionization energy can be populated via strong, resonant transitions from the ground state. The only relevant decay channel of these levels is autoionization; predissociation is energetically not possible and radiative decay is many orders of magnitude slower. Starting from translationally cold neutral molecules, translationally cold molecular ions can thus be produced with very high efficiency. By populating bound levels just above the ionization energy, internally cold molecular ions, exclusively occupying the lowest rotational level, are produced. This is experimentally shown here for the dysprosium monoxide molecule, DyO, for which the lowest bond dissociation energy is determined to be 0.0831(6) eV above the ionization energy. |
| title | Cold molecular ions via autoionization below the dissociation limit |
| topic | Atomic and Molecular Clusters |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03160 |