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MO: Fachverband Molekülphysik

MO 5: Posters 1: Electronic Spectroscopy, Photochemistry, Femtosecond Spectroscopy

MO 5.8: Poster

Montag, 17. März 2014, 16:30–18:30, Spree-Palais

Evolution of Interatomic Coulombic Decay in the Time Domain — •Florian Trinter¹, Joshua B. Williams¹, Miriam Weller¹, Markus Waitz¹, Martin Pitzer¹, Jörg Voigtsberger¹, Carl Schober¹, Gregor Kastirke¹, Christian Müller¹, Christoph Goihl¹, Phillip Burzynski¹, Florian Wiegandt¹, Tobias Bauer¹, Robert Wallauer¹, Hendrik Sann¹, Anton Kalinin¹, Lothar Ph. H. Schmidt¹, Markus Schöffler¹, Nicolas Sisourat², and Till Jahnke¹ — ¹Institut für Kernphysik, Goethe Universität, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 1, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany — ²Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75005 Paris, France

During the past 15 years a novel decay mechanism of excited atoms has been discovered and investigated. This so-called interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) involves the chemical environment of the electronically excited atom: the excitation energy is transferred (in many cases over long distances) to a neighbor of the initially excited particle usually ionizing that neighbor. It turned out that ICD is a very common decay route in nature as it occurs across van der Waals and hydrogen bonds. The time evolution of ICD is predicted to be highly complex, as its efficiency strongly depends on the distance of the atoms involved and this distance typically changes during the decay. Here we present the first direct measurement of the temporal evolution of ICD using a novel experimental approach.