Ultra-Short Lived Non-Rydberg Doubly Excited Resonances Observed in Molecular Photoionization of CO and N_{2} Molecules

• Authors: P. Erman , A. Karawajczyk , U. Köble , E. Rachlew , M. Stankiewicz , K. Yoshiki-Franzen , L. Veseth
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Our group has recently carried out measurements of dispersed fluorescence from photo-excited N_{2} and CO molecules in 19-34 eV excitation energy range using the Swedish synchrotron radiation facility MAX in Lund. The experimental results show that relative intensities of the fluorescence from different vibrational levels of the excited N_{2}^{+} and CO^{+} vary with the excitation energy. We associate this phenomenon with the existence of doubly excited states in N_{2} and CO in the corresponding energy regions. Our results show that the widths of the newly revealed states correspond to their lifetimes of the order of few femtoseconds.

Keywords

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33.80.Eh

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 1997
• Volume: 91
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 763-767

Dates

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1997-04

Contributors

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P. Erman

• Department of Physics I, Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden

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A. Karawajczyk

• Department of Physics I, Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden

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U. Köble

• Department of Physics I, Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden

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E. Rachlew

• Department of Physics I, Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden

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M. Stankiewicz

• Department of Physics I, Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden

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K. Yoshiki-Franzen

• Department of Physics I, Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden

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L. Veseth

• Department of Physics, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway