C Cornaggia 2009 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 42 161002 doi:10.1088/0953-4075/42/16/161002
C Cornaggia
Show affiliationsElectron–molecular ion elastic scattering is probed in CO2 in the 15–30 eV range using laser-induced single ionization of neutral species in the 8 × 1013–2 × 1014 W cm−2 intensity range. The experimental procedure follows the proposal of Lin and coworkers (2007 Phys. Rev. A 76 043402, 2008 New J. Phys. 10 025011) and is illustrated with atomic argon. In CO2, the angular distributions of backscattered electrons are found to depend on the collision energy as in electron–neutral molecule elastic scattering. The relatively simple experimental method may lead to time-resolved studies of structural changes in molecules with sub-femtosecond resolution.
34.80.-i Electron and positron scattering
Issue 16 (28 August 2009)
Received 18 June 2009
Published 20 July 2009
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