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Few-Photon Multiple Ionization Of Ne And Ar By Strong Free-Electron-Laser Pulses, Robert Moshammer, Yuhai Jiang, L. Foucar, Artem Rudenko, Th. Ergler, Claus Dieter Schroter, S. Ludemann, Karl Zrost, Daniel Fischer, J. Titze, Till Jahnke, Markus S. Schoffler, Th Weber, Reinhard Dorner, Theo J.M. Zouros, Alexander Dorn, T. Ferger, Kai Uwe Kuhnel, S. Dusterer, R. Treusch, Paul Radcliffe, Elke Plonjes, Joachim Hermann Ullrich
Few-Photon Multiple Ionization Of Ne And Ar By Strong Free-Electron-Laser Pulses, Robert Moshammer, Yuhai Jiang, L. Foucar, Artem Rudenko, Th. Ergler, Claus Dieter Schroter, S. Ludemann, Karl Zrost, Daniel Fischer, J. Titze, Till Jahnke, Markus S. Schoffler, Th Weber, Reinhard Dorner, Theo J.M. Zouros, Alexander Dorn, T. Ferger, Kai Uwe Kuhnel, S. Dusterer, R. Treusch, Paul Radcliffe, Elke Plonjes, Joachim Hermann Ullrich
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Few-photon multiple ionization of Ne and Ar atoms by strong vacuum ultraviolet laser pulses from the free-electron laser at Hamburg was investigated differentially with the Heidelberg reaction microscope. The light-intensity dependence of Ne2+ production reveals the dominance of nonsequential two-photon double ionization at intensities of I< 6 x 1012W/cm2 and significant contributions of three-photon ionization as I increases. Ne2+ recoil-ion-momentum distributions suggest that two electrons absorbing "instantaneously" two photons are ejected most likely into opposite hemispheres with similar energies.