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University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Martin Centurion Publications

Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

2019

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Femtosecond Gas-Phase Mega-Electron-Volt Ultrafast Electron Diffraction, Xiaozhe Shen, J. P.F. Nunes, J. Yang, R. K. Jobe, R. K. Li, Ming Fu Lin, B. Moore, M. Niebuhr, S. P. Weathersby, T. J.A. Wolf, C. Yoneda, Markus Guehr, Martin Centurion, X. J. Wang Sep 2019

Femtosecond Gas-Phase Mega-Electron-Volt Ultrafast Electron Diffraction, Xiaozhe Shen, J. P.F. Nunes, J. Yang, R. K. Jobe, R. K. Li, Ming Fu Lin, B. Moore, M. Niebuhr, S. P. Weathersby, T. J.A. Wolf, C. Yoneda, Markus Guehr, Martin Centurion, X. J. Wang

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The development of ultrafast gas electron diffraction with nonrelativistic electrons has enabled the determination of molecular structures with atomic spatial resolution. It has, however, been challenging to break the picosecond temporal resolution barrier and achieve the goal that has long been envisioned - making space- and-time resolved molecular movies of chemical reaction in the gas-phase. Recently, an ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) apparatus using mega-electron-volt (MeV) electrons was developed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory for imaging ultrafast structural dynamics of molecules in the gas phase. The SLAC gas-phase MeV UED has achieved 65 fs root mean square temporal resolution, 0.63 …


Roadmap On Photonic, Electronic And Atomic Collision Physics: Ii. Electron And Antimatter Interactions, Stefan Schippers, Emma Sokell, Friedrich Aumayr, Hossein Sadeghpour, Kiyoshi Ueda, Igor Bray, Klaus Bartschat, Andrew Murray, Jonathan Tennyson, Alexander Dorn, Masakazu Yamazaki, Masahiko Takahashi, Nigel Mason, Oldřich Novotný, Andreas Wolf, Leon Sanche, Martin Centurion, Yasunori Yamazaki, Gaetana Laricchia, Clifford M. Surko, James Sullivan, Gleb Gribakin, Daniel Wolf Savin, Yuri Ralchenko, Ronnie Hoekstra, Gerry O'Sullivan Aug 2019

Roadmap On Photonic, Electronic And Atomic Collision Physics: Ii. Electron And Antimatter Interactions, Stefan Schippers, Emma Sokell, Friedrich Aumayr, Hossein Sadeghpour, Kiyoshi Ueda, Igor Bray, Klaus Bartschat, Andrew Murray, Jonathan Tennyson, Alexander Dorn, Masakazu Yamazaki, Masahiko Takahashi, Nigel Mason, Oldřich Novotný, Andreas Wolf, Leon Sanche, Martin Centurion, Yasunori Yamazaki, Gaetana Laricchia, Clifford M. Surko, James Sullivan, Gleb Gribakin, Daniel Wolf Savin, Yuri Ralchenko, Ronnie Hoekstra, Gerry O'Sullivan

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We publish three Roadmaps on photonic, electronic and atomic collision physics in order to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the ICPEAC conference. In Roadmap II we focus on electron and antimatter interactions. Modern theoretical and experimental approaches provide detailed insight into the many body quantum dynamics of leptonic collisions with targets of varying complexity ranging from neutral and charged atoms to large biomolecules and clusters. These developments have been driven by technological progress and by the needs of adjacent areas of science such as astrophysics, plasma physics and radiation biophysics. This Roadmap aims at looking back along the road, explaining …


Diffractive Imaging Of Dissociation And Ground-State Dynamics In A Complex Molecule, Kyle J. Wilkin, Robert M. Parrish, Jie Yang, Thomas J.A. Wolf, J. Pedro F. Nunes, Markus Guehr, Renkai Li, Xiaozhe Shen, Qiang Zheng, Xijie Wang, Todd J. Martinez, Martin Centurion Aug 2019

Diffractive Imaging Of Dissociation And Ground-State Dynamics In A Complex Molecule, Kyle J. Wilkin, Robert M. Parrish, Jie Yang, Thomas J.A. Wolf, J. Pedro F. Nunes, Markus Guehr, Renkai Li, Xiaozhe Shen, Qiang Zheng, Xijie Wang, Todd J. Martinez, Martin Centurion

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We have investigated the structural dynamics in photoexcited 1,2-diiodotetrafluoroethane molecules (C2F4I2) in the gas phase experimentally using ultrafast electron diffraction and theoretically using FOMO-CASCI excited-state dynamics simulations. The molecules are excited by an ultraviolet femtosecond laser pulse to a state characterized by a transition from the iodine 5p orbital to a mixed 5p||σ hole and CF2• antibonding orbital, which results in the cleavage of one of the carbon-iodine bonds. We have observed, with sub-Angstrom resolution, the motion of the nuclear wave packet of the dissociating iodine atom followed by …