Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-2001

Publication Title

Physical Review Letters

Publisher

American Physical Society

Volume

87

Issue

27

First page number:

273003-1

Last page number:

273003-4

Abstract

Measurements of angular distributions of K-shell electrons photoejected from molecular nitrogen are reported which reveal large deviations at relatively low photon energies ( ħω≤500eV) from emission patterns anticipated from the dipole approximation to interactions between radiation and matter. A concomitant theoretical analysis incorporating the effects of electromagnetic retardation attributes the observed large nondipole behaviors in N2 to bond-length-dependent terms in the E1⊗(E2,M1) photoelectron emission amplitudes which are indicative of a potentially universal nondipole behavior in molecular photoionization.

Controlled Subject

Angular distribution (Nuclear physics); Anisotropy; Conduction electrons; Dipole moments; Photoionization

Disciplines

Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics | Inorganic Chemistry | Nuclear | Physical Chemistry

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File Size

166 KB

Language

English

Comments

Also published in:

ALS Activity Report, Science Highlights 2002, p. 52, June 2003

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