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Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Jul 01;89(1):013001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.013001. Epub 2002 Jun 14.

Coincident fragment detection in strong field photoionization and dissociation of H2.

Physical review letters

H Rottke, C Trump, M Wittmann, G Korn, W Sandner, R Moshammer, A Dorn, C D Schröter, D Fischer, J R Crespo Lopez-Urrutia, P Neumayer, J Deipenwisch, C Höhr, B Feuerstein, J Ullrich

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  1. Max-Born-Institut, Max-Born-Strasse 2a, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.

PMID: 12097039 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.013001

Abstract

Electron-ion momentum spectroscopy is used to investigate the correlated electronic and nuclear motion in fragmentation of H2 in 4 x 10(14) W/cm(2), 25 fs laser pulses at 795 nm. Reaction channel dependent photoelectron spectra indicate that besides the main, stepwise H2 ionization H2(+) dissociation mechanism resulting in the products H(1s) + H(+) + e(-) a second new mechanism has to be assumed. The momentum distribution of H(+) ions in the dissociation channels H(1s) + H(+) + e(-) and 2H(+) + 2e(-) is found to be independent of the kinetic energy of the photoelectrons.

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