ULTRAFAST LASER-INDUCED COULOMB EXPLOSION OF CLUSTERS WITH HIGH CHARGE STATES

Authors
PURNELL J SNYDER EM WEI S CASTLEMAN AW
Citation
J. Purnell et al., ULTRAFAST LASER-INDUCED COULOMB EXPLOSION OF CLUSTERS WITH HIGH CHARGE STATES, Chemical physics letters, 229(4-5), 1994, pp. 333-339
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
Journal title
Chemical physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00092614
Volume
229
Issue
4-5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
333 - 339
Database
ISI
SICI code
0009-2614(1994)229:4-5<333:ULCEOC>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
Iodine and argon ions, as highly charged as I17+ and Ar8+, are found t o be formed upon the irradiation of HI clusters and HIArm clusters wit h an intense femtosecond laser beam. Double peaks are observed for eac h multicharged species, and identified to result from Coulomb explosio n of clusters. Kinetic energy release values are calculated from the p eak splittings, and also directly measured from cutoff potentials usin g a reflectron as an energy analyzer. The determined values are surpri singly large, on the order of several hundred electron volts.