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Slow Interatomic Coulombic Decay of Multiply Excited Neon Clusters

Iablonskyi, D. ; Nagaya, K. ; Fukuzawa, H. ; Motomura, K. ; Kumagai, Y. ; Mondal, S. ; Tachibana, T. ; Takanashi, T ; Nishiyama, T. and Matsunami, K. , et al. (2016) In Physical Review Letters 117(27).
Abstract

Ne clusters (∼5000 atoms) were resonantly excited (2p→3s) by intense free electron laser (FEL) radiation at FERMI. Such multiply excited clusters can decay nonradiatively via energy exchange between at least two neighboring excited atoms. Benefiting from the precise tunability and narrow bandwidth of seeded FEL radiation, specific sites of the Ne clusters were probed. We found that the relaxation of cluster surface atoms proceeds via a sequence of interatomic or intermolecular Coulombic decay (ICD) processes while ICD of bulk atoms is additionally affected by the surrounding excited medium via inelastic electron scattering. For both cases, cluster excitations relax to atomic states prior to ICD, showing that this kind of ICD is rather... (More)

Ne clusters (∼5000 atoms) were resonantly excited (2p→3s) by intense free electron laser (FEL) radiation at FERMI. Such multiply excited clusters can decay nonradiatively via energy exchange between at least two neighboring excited atoms. Benefiting from the precise tunability and narrow bandwidth of seeded FEL radiation, specific sites of the Ne clusters were probed. We found that the relaxation of cluster surface atoms proceeds via a sequence of interatomic or intermolecular Coulombic decay (ICD) processes while ICD of bulk atoms is additionally affected by the surrounding excited medium via inelastic electron scattering. For both cases, cluster excitations relax to atomic states prior to ICD, showing that this kind of ICD is rather slow (picosecond range). Controlling the average number of excitations per cluster via the FEL intensity allows a coarse tuning of the ICD rate.

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0031-9007
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.276806
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  abstract     = {{<p>Ne clusters (∼5000 atoms) were resonantly excited (2p→3s) by intense free electron laser (FEL) radiation at FERMI. Such multiply excited clusters can decay nonradiatively via energy exchange between at least two neighboring excited atoms. Benefiting from the precise tunability and narrow bandwidth of seeded FEL radiation, specific sites of the Ne clusters were probed. We found that the relaxation of cluster surface atoms proceeds via a sequence of interatomic or intermolecular Coulombic decay (ICD) processes while ICD of bulk atoms is additionally affected by the surrounding excited medium via inelastic electron scattering. For both cases, cluster excitations relax to atomic states prior to ICD, showing that this kind of ICD is rather slow (picosecond range). Controlling the average number of excitations per cluster via the FEL intensity allows a coarse tuning of the ICD rate.</p>}},
  author       = {{Iablonskyi, D. and Nagaya, K. and Fukuzawa, H. and Motomura, K. and Kumagai, Y. and Mondal, S. and Tachibana, T. and Takanashi, T and Nishiyama, T. and Matsunami, K. and Johnsson, P. and Piseri, P. and Sansone, G. and Dubrouil, A. and Reduzzi, M. and Carpeggiani, P. and Vozzi, C. and Devetta, M and Negro, M. and Calegari, F. and Trabattoni, A. and Castrovilli, M. C. and Faccialà, D. and Ovcharenko, Y and Möller, T. and Mudrich, M. and Stienkemeier, F. and Coreno, M. and Alagia, M and Schütte, B. and Berrah, N. and Kuleff, A. I. and Jabbari, G. and Callegari, C and Plekan, O and Finetti, P and Spezzani, C. and Ferrari, E. and Allaria, E. and Penco, G. and Serpico, C. and De Ninno, G. and Nikolov, I. and Diviacco, B. and Di Mitri, S. and Giannessi, L. and Prince, K C and Ueda, K.}},
  issn         = {{0031-9007}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{12}},
  number       = {{27}},
  publisher    = {{American Physical Society}},
  series       = {{Physical Review Letters}},
  title        = {{Slow Interatomic Coulombic Decay of Multiply Excited Neon Clusters}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.276806}},
  doi          = {{10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.276806}},
  volume       = {{117}},
  year         = {{2016}},
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