Probing calculated O-2(+) potential-energy curves with an XUV-IR pump-probe experiment

dc.citation.doi10.1103/PhysRevA.91.043415
dc.citation.issn1050-2947
dc.citation.issue4
dc.citation.jtitlePhysical Review A
dc.citation.spage8
dc.citation.volume91
dc.contributor.authorCorlin, P.
dc.contributor.authorFischer, A.
dc.contributor.authorSchonwald, M.
dc.contributor.authorSperl, A.
dc.contributor.authorMizuno, T.
dc.contributor.authorThumm, Uwe P. E.
dc.contributor.authorPfeifer, T.
dc.contributor.authorMoshammer, R.
dc.contributor.authoreidthumm
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-06T15:11:43Z
dc.date.available2016-04-06T15:11:43Z
dc.date.issued2015-04-22
dc.date.published2015
dc.descriptionCitation: Corlin, P., Fischer, A., Schonwald, M., Sperl, A., Mizuno, T., Thumm, U., . . . Moshammer, R. (2015). Probing calculated O-2(+) potential-energy curves with an XUV-IR pump-probe experiment. Physical Review A, 91(4), 8. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.91.043415
dc.descriptionWe study dissociative photoionization of molecular oxygen in a kinematically complete XUV-IR pump-probe experiment. Detecting charged fragments and photoelectrons in coincidence using a reaction microscope, we observe a pump-probe delay-dependent yield of very low energetic O+ ions which oscillates with a period of 40 fs. This feature is caused by a time-dependent vibrational wave packet in the potential of the binding O-2(+)(a(4)Pi(u))state, which is probed by resonant absorption of a single infrared photon to the weakly repulsive O-2(+)(f(4)Pi(g)) state. By quantitative comparison of the experimental kinetic-energy-release (KER) and quantum-beat (QB) spectra with the results of a coupled-channel simulation, we are able to discriminate between the calculated adiabatic O-2(+) potential-energy curves (PECs) of Marian et al. [Marian, Marian, Peyerimhoff, Hess, Buenker, and Seger, Mol. Phys. 46, 779 (1982)] and Magrakvelidze et al. [Magrakvelidze, Aikens, and Thumm, Phys. Rev. A 86, 023402 (2012)]. In general, we find a good agreement between experimental and simulated KER and QB spectra. However, we could not reproduce all features of the experimental data with these PECs. In contrast, adjusting a Morse potential to the experimental data, most features of the experimental spectra are well reproduced by our simulation. By comparing this Morse potential to theoretically predicted PECs, we demonstrate the sensitivity of our experimental method to small changes in the shape of the binding potential.
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dc.subjectCross-Sections
dc.subjectMolecular-Oxygen
dc.subjectPhotoionization
dc.subjectOptics
dc.subjectPhysics
dc.titleProbing calculated O-2(+) potential-energy curves with an XUV-IR pump-probe experiment
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