Unambiguous observation of F-atom core-hole localization in CF4 through body-frame photoelectron angular distributions Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2017 American Physical Society. A dramatic symmetry breaking in K-shell photoionization of the CF4 molecule in which a core-hole vacancy is created in one of four equivalent fluorine atoms is displayed in the molecular frame angular distribution of the photoelectrons. Observing the photoejected electron in coincidence with an F+ atomic ion after Auger decay is shown to select the dissociation path where the core hole was localized almost exclusively on that atom. A combination of measurements and ab initio calculations of the photoelectron angular distribution in the frame of the recoiling CF3+ and F+ atoms elucidates the underlying physics that derives from the Ne-like valence structure of the F(1s-1) core-excited atom.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW A

author list (cited authors)

  • McCurdy, C. W., Rescigno, T. N., Trevisan, C. S., Lucchese, R. R., Gaire, B., Menssen, A., ... Weber, T. h.

citation count

  • 14

complete list of authors

  • McCurdy, CW||Rescigno, TN||Trevisan, CS||Lucchese, RR||Gaire, B||Menssen, A||Schoeffler, MS||Gatton, A||Neff, J||Stammer, PM||Rist, J||Eckart, S||Berry, B||Severt, T||Sartor, J||Moradmand, A||Jahnke, T||Landers, AL||Williams, JB||Ben-Itzhak, I||Doerner, R||Belkacem, A||Weber, Th

publication date

  • January 2017