Spin-Polarized Hydrogen Atoms from Molecular Photodissociation
Science2003Vol. 300(5627), pp. 1936–1938
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T. Peter Rakitzis, Peter C. Samartzis, R.L. Toomes, Theofanis N. Kitsopoulos, Alex Brown, Gabriel G. Balint‐Kurti, O. S. Vasyutinskiǐ, J. A. Beswick
Abstract
The production of spin-polarized hydrogen atoms from the photodissociation of hydrogen chloride with circularly polarized 193-nanometer light is inferred from the measurement of the complete angular momentum distributions of ground state Cl(2P3/2)and excited state Cl(2P1/2)cofragments by slice imaging. The experimentally measured and ab initio predicted a q(k) (p)parameters, which describe the single-surface and multiple-surface-interference contributions to the angular momentum distributions, are in excellent agreement. For laser pulses longer than about 0.7 ns, the polarization of the electron and the proton are both 36%.
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