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MO: Fachverband Molekülphysik

MO 10: Highly Excited Molecules and Clusters

MO 10.4: Talk

Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 15:30–15:45, N 6

Time-Resolved XUV-induced Electron Solvation Dynamics in Ammonia and Water Clusters — •Rupert Michiels¹, Aaron LaForge¹, Matthias Bohlen¹, Carlo Callegari², Andrew Clark³, Marcel Drabbels³, Kevin C. Prince², Stefano Stranges⁴, Marcello Coreno⁵, Paola Finetti², Oksana Plekan², Jun Ma⁶, Veronica Oliver³, Hans-Jakob Wörner⁶, and Frank Stienkemeier¹ — ¹Universität Freiburg, Germany — ²Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy — ³Ecole Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne, Switzerland — ⁴University Sapienza, Italy — ⁵CNR - Instituto di Struttura della Materia, Italy — ⁶ETH Zürich, Switzerland

The solvation of electrons in aqueous solutions plays an important role in biological and chemical systems. Nonetheless, a fundamental understanding of its properties (e.g. solvation time, binding energies, solvation shells, and binding motifs) has yet to be fully attained. Here, we report new results for ammonia and water clusters investigating XUV ionization followed by electron recapture. The binding energies of the solvated electron were measured in a pump-probe scheme as a function of cluster size in which we found solvation times in the femtosecond to picosecond range.