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Séminaire T.Marchenko (5 octobre 2010)
by - 29 September 2010
In the first part of my talk I will present the results of our experiment on Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) in gas-phase iodomethane (CH3I) performed at ID26 beamline at ESRF. We show that RIXS spectral features such as dispersion and widths of inelastic emission lines carry information on nuclear dynamics in a molecule upon core-hole excitation. The time scale of this nuclear dynamics is determined by a scattering time having a maximum value on top of the absorption resonance, corresponding to the natural lifetime of the core hole. In the case of CH3I molecule the natural lifetime of 200 asec for Iodine L-shell core hole sets a serious limitation to the occurrence of nuclear dynamics. Nevertheless, a slight deviation of RIXS spectral features around the absorption resonance observed in CH3I demonstrates a great sensitivity of RIXS spectroscopy to nuclear rearrangement in a molecule, stretching into sub-femtosecond time scale.
The second part of the talk is devoted to the experiments aiming at the molecular frame measurements. I will present experiments on field-free molecular alignment performed at the free electron laser in Hamburg FLASH. The impulsive alignment induced by a femtosecond near-infrared laser pulse in a sample of CO2 is probed by ionizing and dissociating the molecules with a time-delayed XUV-FEL pulse. The time-dependent angular distributions of ionic fragments measured by a velocity map imaging spectrometer exhibit rapid changes associated with the induced rotational dynamics
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