@article{BerrahSanchezGonzalezJureketal.2019, author = {Berrah, N. and S{\´a}nchez-Gonz{\´a}lez, {\´A}lvaro and Jurek, Zoltan and Obaid, Razib and Xiong, H. and Squibb, R. J. and Osipov, T. and Lutman, A. and Fang, L. and Barillot, T. and Bozek, J. D. and Cryan, J. and Wolf, T. J. A. and Rolles, Daniel and Coffee, R. and Schnorr, Kirsten and Augustin, S. and Fukuzawa, Hironobu and Motomura, K. and Niebuhr, Nina Isabelle and Frasinski, L. J. and Feifel, Raimund and Schulz, Claus-Peter and Toyota, Kenji and Son, Sang-Kil and Ueda, K. and Pfeifer, T. and Marangos, J. P. and Santra, Robin}, title = {Femtosecond-resolved observation of the fragmentation of buckminsterfullerene following X-ray multiphoton ionization}, series = {Nature physics}, volume = {15}, journal = {Nature physics}, number = {12}, publisher = {Nature Publ. Group}, address = {London}, issn = {1745-2473}, doi = {10.1038/s41567-019-0665-7}, pages = {1279 -- 1301}, year = {2019}, abstract = {X-ray free-electron lasers have, over the past decade, opened up the possibility of understanding the ultrafast response of matter to intense X-ray pulses. In earlier research on atoms and small molecules, new aspects of this response were uncovered, such as rapid sequences of inner-shell photoionization and Auger ionization. Here, we studied a larger molecule, buckminsterfullerene (C-60), exposed to 640 eV X-rays, and examined the role of chemical effects, such as chemical bonds and charge transfer, on the fragmentation following multiple ionization of the molecule. To provide time resolution, we performed femtosecond-resolved X-ray pump/X-ray probe measurements, which were accompanied by advanced simulations. The simulations and experiment reveal that despite substantial ionization induced by the ultrashort (20 fs) X-ray pump pulse, the fragmentation of C-60 is considerably delayed. This work uncovers the persistence of the molecular structure of C-60, which hinders fragmentation over a timescale of hundreds of femtoseconds. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a substantial fraction of the ejected fragments are neutral carbon atoms. These findings provide insights into X-ray free-electron laser-induced radiation damage in large molecules, including biomolecules.}, language = {en} } @article{WolfHolzmeierWagneretal.2017, author = {Wolf, Thomas J. A. and Holzmeier, Fabian and Wagner, Isabella and Berrah, Nora and Bostedt, Christoph and Bozek, John and Bucksbaum, Phil and Coffee, Ryan and Cryan, James and Farrell, Joe and Feifel, Raimund and Martinez, Todd J. and McFarland, Brian and Mucke, Melanie and Nandi, Saikat and Tarantelli, Francesco and Fischer, Ingo and G{\"u}hr, Markus}, title = {Observing Femtosecond Fragmentation Using Ultrafast X-ray-Induced Auger Spectra}, series = {Applied sciences}, volume = {7}, journal = {Applied sciences}, number = {7}, publisher = {MDPI}, address = {Basel}, issn = {2076-3417}, doi = {10.3390/app7070681}, pages = {11}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Molecules often fragment after photoionization in the gas phase. Usually, this process can only be investigated spectroscopically as long as there exists electron correlation between the photofragments. Important parameters, like their kinetic energy after separation, cannot be investigated. We are reporting on a femtosecond time-resolved Auger electron spectroscopy study concerning the photofragmentation dynamics of thymine. We observe the appearance of clearly distinguishable signatures from thymines neutral photofragment isocyanic acid. Furthermore, we observe a time-dependent shift of its spectrum, which we can attribute to the influence of the charged fragment on the Auger electron. This allows us to map our time-dependent dataset onto the fragmentation coordinate. The time dependence of the shift supports efficient transformation of the excess energy gained from photoionization into kinetic energy of the fragments. Our method is broadly applicable to the investigation of photofragmentation processes.}, language = {en} } @article{HolzmeierWolfGiengeretal.2018, author = {Holzmeier, Fabian and Wolf, Thomas J. A. and Gienger, Christian and Wagner, Isabella and Bozek, J. and Nandi, S. and Nicolas, C. and Fischer, Ingo and G{\"u}hr, Markus and Fink, Reinhold F.}, title = {Normal and resonant Auger spectroscopy of isocyanic acid, HNCO}, series = {The journal of chemical physics : bridges a gap between journals of physics and journals of chemistr}, volume = {149}, journal = {The journal of chemical physics : bridges a gap between journals of physics and journals of chemistr}, number = {3}, publisher = {American Institute of Physics}, address = {Melville}, issn = {0021-9606}, doi = {10.1063/1.5030621}, pages = {13}, year = {2018}, abstract = {In this paper, we investigate HNCO by resonant and nonresonant Auger electron spectroscopy at the K-edges of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, employing soft X-ray synchrotron radiation. In comparison with the isosteric but linear CO2 molecule, spectra of the bent HNCO molecule are similar but more complex due to its reduced symmetry, wherein the degeneracy of the π-orbitals is lifted. Resonant Auger electron spectra are presented at different photon energies over the first core-excited 1s → 10a′ resonance. All Auger electron spectra are assigned based on ab initio configuration interaction computations combined with the one-center approximation for Auger intensities and moment theory to consider vibrational motion. The calculated spectra were scaled by a newly introduced energy scaling factor, and generally, good agreement is found between experiment and theory for normal as well as resonant Auger electron spectra. A comparison of resonant Auger spectra with nonresonant Auger structures shows a slight broadening as well as a shift of the former spectra between -8 and -9 eV due to the spectating electron. Since HNCO is a small molecule and contains the four most abundant atoms of organic molecules, the reported Auger electron decay spectra will provide a benchmark for further theoretical approaches in the computation of core electron spectra.}, language = {en} } @article{WolfHolzmeierWagneretal.2017, author = {Wolf, Thomas J. A. and Holzmeier, Fabian and Wagner, Isabella and Berrah, Nora and Bostedt, Christoph and Bozek, John and Bucksbaum, Philip H. and Coffee, Ryan and Cryan, James and Farrell, Joe and Feifel, Raimund and Martinez, Todd J. and McFarland, Brian and Mucke, Melanie and Nandi, Saikat and Tarantelli, Francesco and Fischer, Ingo and G{\"u}hr, Markus}, title = {Observing Femtosecond Fragmentation Using Ultrafast X-ray-Induced Auger Spectra}, series = {Applied Sciences}, volume = {7}, journal = {Applied Sciences}, number = {7}, publisher = {MDPI}, address = {Basel}, issn = {2076-3417}, doi = {10.3390/app7070681}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Molecules often fragment after photoionization in the gas phase. Usually, this process can only be investigated spectroscopically as long as there exists electron correlation between the photofragments. Important parameters, like their kinetic energy after separation, cannot be investigated. We are reporting on a femtosecond time-resolved Auger electron spectroscopy study concerning the photofragmentation dynamics of thymine. We observe the appearance of clearly distinguishable signatures from thymine′s neutral photofragment isocyanic acid. Furthermore, we observe a time-dependent shift of its spectrum, which we can attribute to the influence of the charged fragment on the Auger electron. This allows us to map our time-dependent dataset onto the fragmentation coordinate. The time dependence of the shift supports efficient transformation of the excess energy gained from photoionization into kinetic energy of the fragments. Our method is broadly applicable to the investigation of photofragmentation processes.}, language = {en} } @misc{WolfHolzmeierWagneretal.2017, author = {Wolf, Thomas J. A. and Holzmeier, Fabian and Wagner, Isabella and Berrah, Nora and Bostedt, Christoph and Bozek, John and Bucksbaum, Philip H. and Coffee, Ryan and Cryan, James and Farrell, Joe and Feifel, Raimund and Martinez, Todd J. and McFarland, Brian and Mucke, Melanie and Nandi, Saikat and Tarantelli, Francesco and Fischer, Ingo and G{\"u}hr, Markus}, title = {Observing Femtosecond Fragmentation Using Ultrafast X-ray-Induced Auger Spectra}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-402692}, pages = {11}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Molecules often fragment after photoionization in the gas phase. Usually, this process can only be investigated spectroscopically as long as there exists electron correlation between the photofragments. Important parameters, like their kinetic energy after separation, cannot be investigated. We are reporting on a femtosecond time-resolved Auger electron spectroscopy study concerning the photofragmentation dynamics of thymine. We observe the appearance of clearly distinguishable signatures from thymine′s neutral photofragment isocyanic acid. Furthermore, we observe a time-dependent shift of its spectrum, which we can attribute to the influence of the charged fragment on the Auger electron. This allows us to map our time-dependent dataset onto the fragmentation coordinate. The time dependence of the shift supports efficient transformation of the excess energy gained from photoionization into kinetic energy of the fragments. Our method is broadly applicable to the investigation of photofragmentation processes.}, language = {en} }