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Picturing Electron Capture To The Continuum In The Transfer Ionization Of Intermediate-Energy He²⁺ Collisions With Argon, Ruitian Zhang, Xinwen Ma, Shaofeng Zhang, Xiaolong Zhu, Susmitha Akula, Don H. Madison, Bingsheng Li, Dongbin Qian, Wentian Feng, Dalong Guo, Huiping Liu, Shuncheng Yan, Pengju Zhang, Shenyue Xu, Ximeng Chen Jan 2013

Picturing Electron Capture To The Continuum In The Transfer Ionization Of Intermediate-Energy He²⁺ Collisions With Argon, Ruitian Zhang, Xinwen Ma, Shaofeng Zhang, Xiaolong Zhu, Susmitha Akula, Don H. Madison, Bingsheng Li, Dongbin Qian, Wentian Feng, Dalong Guo, Huiping Liu, Shuncheng Yan, Pengju Zhang, Shenyue Xu, Ximeng Chen

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Electron emission occurring in transfer ionization for He2+ collisions with argon has been investigated using cold target recoil ion momentum spectroscopy. The double differential cross sections for electron capture to the continuum of the projectile (cusp-shaped electrons) are presented for collision energies from 17.5 to 75 keV/u. For an energy of 30 keV/u, we find a maximum in the experimental ratio of the cusp-shaped electron yield to the total electron yield. This result is explained in terms of the velocity matching between the projectile ion and the electron initially bound to the target. One of the important issues for …


High Harmonic Spectroscopy Of The Cooper Minimum In Molecules, M. C. H. Wong, Anh-Thu Le, A. F. Alharbi, A. E. Boguslavskiy, R. R. Lucchese, J.-P. Brichta, C. D. Lin, V. R. Bhardwaj Jan 2013

High Harmonic Spectroscopy Of The Cooper Minimum In Molecules, M. C. H. Wong, Anh-Thu Le, A. F. Alharbi, A. E. Boguslavskiy, R. R. Lucchese, J.-P. Brichta, C. D. Lin, V. R. Bhardwaj

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The Cooper minimum (CM) has been studied using high harmonic generation solely in atoms. Here, we present detailed experimental and theoretical studies on the CM in molecules probed by high harmonic generation using a range of near-infrared light pulses from λ = 1.3 to 1.8 µm. We demonstrate the CM to occur in CS₂ and CCl₄ at ~42 and ~40 eV, respectively, by comparing the high harmonic spectra with the known partial photoionization cross sections of different molecular orbitals, confirmed by theoretical calculations of harmonic spectra. We use CM to probe electron localization in Cl-containing molecules (CCl₄, CH₂Cl₂, and trans …


Search For Gravitational Waves From Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger, And Ringdown In Ligo-Virgo Data From 2009-2010, J. Aasi, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Jan 2013

Search For Gravitational Waves From Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger, And Ringdown In Ligo-Virgo Data From 2009-2010, J. Aasi, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

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We report a search for gravitational waves from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary black holes (BBH) with total mass between 25 and 100 solar masses, in data taken at the LIGO and Virgo observatories between July 7, 2009 and October 20, 2010. The maximum sensitive distance of the detectors over this period for a (20,20)M coalescence was 300 Mpc. No gravitational wave signals were found. We thus report upper limits on the astrophysical coalescence rates of BBH as a function of the component masses for nonspinning components, and also evaluate the dependence of the search sensitivity on …