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Dupuy R, Buttersack T, Trinter F, Richter C, Gholami S, Björneholm O, Hergenhahn U, Winter B, Bluhm H. The solvation shell probed by resonant intermolecular Coulombic decay. Nat Commun 2024; 15:6926. [PMID: 39138192 PMCID: PMC11322543 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51417-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2024] [Accepted: 08/06/2024] [Indexed: 08/15/2024] Open
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Molecules involved in solvation shells have properties differing from those of the bulk solvent, which can in turn affect reactivity. Among key properties of these molecules are their nature and electronic structure. Widely used tools to characterize this type of property are X-ray-based spectroscopies, which, however, usually lack the capability to selectively probe the solvation-shell molecules. A class of X-ray triggered "non-local" processes has the recognized potential to provide this selectivity. Intermolecular Coulombic decay (ICD) and related processes involve neighbouring molecules in the decay of the X-ray-excited target, and are thus naturally sensitive to its immediate environment. Applying electron spectroscopy to aqueous solutions, we explore the resonant flavours of ICD and demonstrate how it can inform on the first solvation shell of excited solvated cations. One particular ICD process turns out to be a potent marker of the formation of ion pairs. Another gives a direct access to the electron binding energies of the water molecules in the first solvation shell, a quantity previously elusive to direct measurements. The resonant nature of the processes makes them readily measurable, providing powerful new spectroscopic tools.
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- Rémi Dupuy
- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique - Matiere et Rayonnement, LCPMR, F-75005, Paris Cedex 05, France.
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- Institut für Kernphysik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, SE-751 20, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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Bastian B, Asmussen JD, Ltaief LB, Pedersen HB, Sishodia K, De S, Krishnan SR, Medina C, Pal N, Richter R, Sisourat N, Mudrich M. Observation of Interatomic Coulombic Decay Induced by Double Excitation of Helium in Nanodroplets. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 132:233001. [PMID: 38905671 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.233001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 04/25/2024] [Indexed: 06/23/2024]
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Interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) plays a crucial role in weakly bound complexes exposed to intense or high-energy radiation. So far, neutral or ionic atoms or molecules have been prepared in singly excited electron or hole states that can transfer energy to neighboring centers and cause ionization and radiation damage. Here we demonstrate that a doubly excited atom, despite its extremely short lifetime, can decay by ICD; evidenced by high-resolution photoelectron spectra of He nanodroplets excited to the 2s2p+ state. We find that ICD proceeds by relaxation into excited He^{*}He^{+} atom-pair states, in agreement with calculations. The ability of inducing ICD by resonant excitation far above the single-ionization threshold opens opportunities for controlling radiation damage to a high degree of element specificity and spectral selectivity.
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- B Bastian
- Wilhelm Ostwald Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Leipzig University, Linnéstraße 2, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Quantum Center of Excellence for Diamond and Emergent Materials and Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India
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- Quantum Center of Excellence for Diamond and Emergent Materials and Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India
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- Quantum Center of Excellence for Diamond and Emergent Materials and Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India
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- Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, UMR 7614, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Kumar R, Ghosh A, Vaval N. Relaxation of the 2a1 ionized water dimer: An interplay of intermolecular Coulombic decay (ICD) and proton transfer processes. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:214302. [PMID: 38832734 DOI: 10.1063/5.0199888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2024] [Accepted: 05/16/2024] [Indexed: 06/05/2024] Open
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This article investigates the relaxation dynamics of the ionized 2a1 state of a water molecule within a water dimer. The study was motivated by findings from two previous pieces of research that focused on the relaxation behaviors of the inner-valence ionized water dimer. The present study discloses an observation indicating that water dimers display specific fragmentation patterns following inner-valence ionization, depending on the position of the vacancy. Vacancies were created in the 2a1 state of the proton-donating water molecule (PDWM) and proton-accepting water molecule (PAWM). Utilizing Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics simulations, the propagation of the 2a1 ionized state was carried out for both scenarios. The results revealed proton transfer occurred when the vacancy resided in the PDWM, accompanied by the closing of decay channels for O-H bond distance (RO-H) > 1.187 Å (matching Richter et al.'s findings). Conversely, when vacancy was on PAWM, we observed no closing of decay channels (aligning with Jahnke et al.'s findings). This difference translates to distinct fragmentation pathways. In PDWM cases, 2a1 state ionization leads to H3O+ -OH• formation. In contrast, PAWM vacancies result in decay pathways leading to H2O+-H2O+ products.
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- Ravi Kumar
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana 131029, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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Bloß D, Trinter F, Unger I, Zindel C, Honisch C, Viehmann J, Kiefer N, Marder L, Küstner-Wetekam C, Heikura E, Cederbaum LS, Björneholm O, Hergenhahn U, Ehresmann A, Hans A. X-ray radiation damage cycle of solvated inorganic ions. Nat Commun 2024; 15:4594. [PMID: 38816362 PMCID: PMC11139941 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48687-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 05/07/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024] Open
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X-ray-induced damage is one of the key topics in radiation chemistry. Substantial damage is attributed to low-energy electrons and radicals emerging from direct inner-shell photoionization or produced by subsequent processes. We apply multi-electron coincidence spectroscopy to X-ray-irradiated aqueous solutions of inorganic ions to investigate the production of low-energy electrons (LEEs) in a predicted cascade of intermolecular charge- and energy-transfer processes, namely electron-transfer-mediated decay (ETMD) and interatomic/intermolecular Coulombic decay (ICD). An advanced coincidence technique allows us to identify several LEE-producing steps during the decay of 1s vacancies in solvated Mg2+ ions, which escaped observation in previous non-coincident experiments. We provide strong evidence for the predicted recovering of the ion's initial state. In natural environments the recovering of the ion's initial state is expected to cause inorganic ions to be radiation-damage hot spots, repeatedly producing destructive particles under continuous irradiation.
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- Dana Bloß
- Institute of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany.
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
- Institut für Kernphysik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Chemical and Biomolecular Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institute of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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- Institute of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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- Institute of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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- Institute of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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- Institute of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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- Institute of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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- Institute of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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- Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Chemical and Biomolecular Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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- Institute of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany.
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Zhang P, Trester J, Ueda K, Han M, Balčiūnas T, Wörner HJ. Time-Resolved Multielectron Coincidence Spectroscopy of Double Auger-Meitner Decay Following Xe 4d Ionization. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 132:083201. [PMID: 38457733 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.083201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2023] [Revised: 11/16/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 03/10/2024]
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We introduce time-resolved multielectron coincidence spectroscopy and apply it to the double Auger-Meitner (AM) emission process following xenon 4d photoionization. The photoelectron and AM electron(s) are measured in coincidence by using a magnetic-bottle time-of-flight spectrometer, enabling an unambiguous assignment of the complete cascade pathways involving two AM electron emissions. In the presence of a near-infrared (NIR) laser pulse, the intermediate Xe^{2+*} state embedded in the Xe^{3+} continuum is probed through single NIR photon absorption and the lifetime of this intermediate Xe^{2+*} state is directly obtained as (109±22) fs.
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- Pengju Zhang
- Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
- School Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
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- Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Ben Ltaief L, Sishodia K, Mandal S, De S, Krishnan SR, Medina C, Pal N, Richter R, Fennel T, Mudrich M. Efficient Indirect Interatomic Coulombic Decay Induced by Photoelectron Impact Excitation in Large Pure Helium Nanodroplets. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:023001. [PMID: 37505945 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.023001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2023] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023]
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Ionization of matter by energetic radiation generally causes complex secondary reactions that are hard to decipher. Using large helium nanodroplets irradiated by extreme ultraviolet (XUV) photons, we show that the full chain of processes ensuing primary photoionization can be tracked in detail by means of high-resolution electron spectroscopy. We find that elastic and inelastic scattering of photoelectrons efficiently induces interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) in the droplets. This type of indirect ICD even becomes the dominant process of electron emission in nearly the entire XUV range in large droplets with radius ≳40 nm. Indirect ICD processes induced by electron scattering likely play an important role in other condensed-phase systems exposed to ionizing radiation as well, including biological matter.
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- L Ben Ltaief
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Quantum Center of Excellence for Diamond and Emergent Materials and Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune 411008, India
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- Quantum Center of Excellence for Diamond and Emergent Materials and Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India
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- Quantum Center of Excellence for Diamond and Emergent Materials and Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India
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- Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- Institute for Physics, University of Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Han M, Fedyk J, Ji JB, Despré V, Kuleff AI, Wörner HJ. Observation of Nuclear Wave-Packet Interference in Ultrafast Interatomic Energy Transfer. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:253202. [PMID: 37418708 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.253202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 07/09/2023]
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We report the experimental observation of quantum interference in the nuclear wave-packet dynamics driving ultrafast excitation-energy transfer in argon dimers below the threshold of interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD). Using time-resolved photoion-photoion coincidence spectroscopy and quantum dynamics simulations, we reveal that the electronic relaxation dynamics of the inner-valence 3s hole on one atom leading to a 4s or 4p excitation on the other one is influenced by nuclear quantum dynamics in the initial state, giving rise to a deep, periodic modulation on the kinetic-energy-release (KER) spectra of the coincident Ar^{+}-Ar^{+} ion pairs. Moreover, the time-resolved KER spectra show characteristic fingerprints of quantum interference effects during the energy-transfer process. Our findings pave the way to elucidating quantum-interference effects in ultrafast charge- and energy-transfer dynamics in more complex systems, such as molecular clusters and solvated molecules.
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- Meng Han
- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Theoretische Chemie, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Theoretische Chemie, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306-UCBL and CNRS, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Theoretische Chemie, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Shaik R, Varma HR, Madjet MEA, Zheng F, Frauenheim T, Chakraborty HS. Plasmonic Resonant Intercluster Coulombic Decay. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:233201. [PMID: 37354411 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.233201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Accepted: 04/28/2023] [Indexed: 06/26/2023]
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Light-induced energy confinement in nanoclusters via plasmon excitations influences applications in nanophotonics, photocatalysis, and the design of controlled slow electron sources. The resonant decay of these excitations through the cluster's ionization continuum provides a unique probe of the collective electronic behavior. However, the transfer of a part of this decay amplitude to the continuum of a second conjugated cluster may offer control and efficacy in sharing the energy nonlocally to instigate remote collective events. With the example of a spherically nested dimer Na_{20}@C_{240} of two plasmonic systems we find that such a transfer is possible through the resonant intercluster Coulombic decay (RICD) as a fundamental process. This plasmonic RICD signal can be experimentally detected by the photoelectron velocity map imaging technique.
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- Rasheed Shaik
- School of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Kamand, H.P. 175075, India
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- School of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Kamand, H.P. 175075, India
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen 28359, Germany
- Department of Natural Sciences, Dean L. Hubbard Center for Innovation, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri 64468, USA
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen 28359, Germany
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen 28359, Germany
- Beijing Computational Science Research Center, 100193 Beijing, China
- Shenzhen JL Computational Science and Applied Research Institute, 518110 Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Dean L. Hubbard Center for Innovation, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri 64468, USA
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Skitnevskaya AD, Gokhberg K, Trofimov AB, Grigoricheva EK, Kuleff AI, Cederbaum LS. Two-Sided Impact of Water on the Relaxation of Inner-Valence Vacancies of Biologically Relevant Molecules. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:1418-1426. [PMID: 36731025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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After ionization of an inner-valence electron of molecules, the resulting cation-radicals store substantial internal energy which, if sufficient, can trigger ejection of an additional electron in an Auger decay usually followed by molecule fragmentation. In the environment, intermolecular Coulombic decay (ICD) and electron-transfer mediated decay (ETMD) are also operative, resulting in one or two electrons being ejected from a neighbor, thus preventing the fragmentation of the initially ionized molecule. These relaxation processes are investigated theoretically for prototypical heterocycle-water complexes of imidazole, pyrrole, and pyridine. It is found that the hydrogen-bonding site of the water molecule critically influences the nature and energetics of the electronic states involved, opening or closing certain relaxation processes of the inner-valence ionized system. Our results indicate that the relaxation mechanisms of biologically relevant systems with inner-valence vacancies on their carbon atoms can strongly depend on the presence of the electron-density donating or accepting neighbor, either water or another biomolecule.
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- Anna D Skitnevskaya
- Theoretische Chemie, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
- Laboratory of Quantum Chemical Modeling of Molecular Systems, Irkutsk State University, Karl Marx Str. 1, 664003 Irkutsk, Russia
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- Theoretische Chemie, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Laboratory of Quantum Chemical Modeling of Molecular Systems, Irkutsk State University, Karl Marx Str. 1, 664003 Irkutsk, Russia
- Favorsky's Institute of Chemistry, SB RAS, Favorsky Str. 1, 664033 Irkutsk, Russia
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- Theoretische Chemie, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
- Laboratory of Quantum Chemical Modeling of Molecular Systems, Irkutsk State University, Karl Marx Str. 1, 664003 Irkutsk, Russia
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- Theoretische Chemie, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Theoretische Chemie, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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Grushevskaya H, Timoshchenko A, Lipnevich I. Topological Defects Created by Gamma Rays in a Carbon Nanotube Bilayer. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 13:410. [PMID: 36770369 PMCID: PMC9921100 DOI: 10.3390/nano13030410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2022] [Revised: 12/29/2022] [Accepted: 01/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Graphene sheets are a highly radiation-resistant material for prospective nuclear applications and nanoscale defect engineering. However, the precise mechanism of graphene radiation hardness has remained elusive. In this paper, we study the origin and nature of defects induced by gamma radiation in a graphene rolled-up plane. In order to reduce the environmental influence on graphene and reveal the small effects of gamma rays, we have synthesized a novel graphene-based nanocomposite material containing a bilayer of highly aligned carbon nanotube assemblies that have been decorated by organometallic compounds and suspended on nanoporous Al2O3 membranes. The bilayer samples were irradiated by gamma rays from a 137Cs source with a fluence rate of the order of 105 m-2s-1. The interaction between the samples and gamma quanta results in the appearance of three characteristic photon escape peaks in the radiation spectra. We explain the mechanism of interaction between the graphene sheets and gamma radiation using a pseudo-Majorana fermion graphene model, which is a quasi-relativistic N=3-flavor graphene model with a Majorana-like mass term. This model admits the existence of giant charge carrier currents that are sufficient to neutralize the impact of ionizing radiation. Experimental evidence is provided for the prediction that the 661.7-keV gamma quanta transfer enough energy to the electron subsystem of graphene to bring about the deconfinement of the bound pseudo-Majorana modes and involve C atoms in a vortical motion of the electron density flows in the graphene plane. We explain the radiation hardness of graphene by the topological non-triviality of the pseudo-Majorana fermion configurations comprising the graphene charge carriers.
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Evlyukhin E, Cifligu P, Pravica M, Bhowmik PK, Kim E, Popov D, Park C. Experimental demonstration of necessary conditions for X-ray induced synthesis of cesium superoxide. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:1799-1807. [PMID: 36597992 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp04767e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Absorption of sufficiently energetic X-ray photons by a molecular system results in a cascade of ultrafast electronic relaxation processes which leads to a distortion and dissociation of its molecular structure. Here, we demonstrate that only decomposition of powdered cesium oxalate monohydrate induced by monochromatic X-ray irradiation under high pressure leads to the formation of cesium superoxide. Whereas, for an unhydrated form of cesium oxalate subjected to the same extreme conditions, only degradation of the electron density distribution is observed. Moreover, the corresponding model of X-ray induced electronic relaxation cascades with an emphasis on water molecules' critical role is proposed. Our experimental results suggest that the presence of water molecules in initially solid-state systems (i.e. additional electronic relaxation channels) together with applied high pressure (reduced interatomic/intermolecular distance) could potentially be a universal criteria for chemical and structural synthesis of novel compounds via X-ray induced photochemistry.
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- Egor Evlyukhin
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA
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- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
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- High Pressure Collaborative Access Team (HPCAT), X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
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- High Pressure Collaborative Access Team (HPCAT), X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
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Kumar R, Vaval N. Effect of Protonation and Deprotonation on Electron Transfer Mediated Decay and Interatomic Coulombic Decay. Chemphyschem 2023; 24:e202200340. [PMID: 36086901 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202200340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2022] [Revised: 09/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Electronically excited atoms or molecules in an environment are often subject to interatomic/intermolecular Coulombic decay (ICD) and/or electron transfer mediated decay (ETMD) mechanisms. A few of the numerous variables that can impact these non-radiative decay mechanisms include bond distance, the number of nearby atoms or molecules, and the polarisation effect. In this paper, we have studied the effect of protonation and deprotonation on the ionization potential (IP), double ionization potential (DIP), and lifetime (or decay width) of the temporary bound state in these non-radiative decay processes. We have chosen LiH-NH3 and LiH-H2 O as test systems. The equation of motion coupled cluster singles and doubles method augmented by complex absorbing potential (CAP-EOM-CCSD) has been used in calculating the energetic position of the decaying state and the system's decay rate. Deprotonation of LiH-NH3 /LiH-H2 O either from the metal center (LiH) or from ammonia/water lowers the IP and DIP compared to the neutral systems. In contrast, protonation increases these quantities compared to neutral systems. The protonation closes the inner valence state relaxation channels for ICD/ETMD. For example, the decay of the O-2s/N-2s state stops in protonated systems (LiH2 + -H2 O, LiH2 + -NH3 , and LiH-NH4 + ). Our study also shows that the efficiency, i. e., the rate of ICD/ETMD, can be altered by protonation and deprotonation. It is expected to have implications for chemical and biological systems.
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- R Kumar
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR-Human Resource Development Center (CSIR-HRDC) Campus, Postal staff College Area, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, 201002, India
- Electronic Structure Theory Group, Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, 411008, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR-Human Resource Development Center (CSIR-HRDC) Campus, Postal staff College Area, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, 201002, India
- Electronic Structure Theory Group, Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, 411008, India
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Niggas A, Schwestka J, Balzer K, Weichselbaum D, Schlünzen N, Heller R, Creutzburg S, Inani H, Tripathi M, Speckmann C, McEvoy N, Susi T, Kotakoski J, Gan Z, George A, Turchanin A, Bonitz M, Aumayr F, Wilhelm RA. Ion-Induced Surface Charge Dynamics in Freestanding Monolayers of Graphene and MoS_{2} Probed by the Emission of Electrons. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 129:086802. [PMID: 36053690 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.086802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2022] [Revised: 04/28/2022] [Accepted: 07/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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We compare the ion-induced electron emission from freestanding monolayers of graphene and MoS_{2} to find a sixfold higher number of emitted electrons for graphene even though both materials have similar work functions. An effective single-band Hubbard model explains this finding by a charge-up in MoS_{2} that prevents low energy electrons from escaping the surface within a period of a few femtoseconds after ion impact. We support these results by measuring the electron energy distribution for correlated pairs of electrons and transmitted ions. The majority of emitted primary electrons have an energy below 10 eV and are therefore subject to the dynamic charge-up effects at surfaces.
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- Anna Niggas
- TU Wien, Institute of Applied Physics, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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- Computing Center of Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany
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- Kiel University, Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, 24098 Kiel, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, 01328 Dresden, Germany
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, 1090 Vienna, Austria
- University of Vienna, Vienna Doctoral School in Physics, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Trinity College Dublin, Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research Centre (AMBER) and School of Chemistry, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of Physical Chemistry, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of Physical Chemistry, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of Physical Chemistry, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Kiel University, Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, 24098 Kiel, Germany
- Kiel Nano, Surface and Interface Science KiNSIS, Kiel, Germany
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Attosecond spectroscopy of size-resolved water clusters. Nature 2022; 609:507-511. [PMID: 35820616 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05039-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Electron dynamics in water are of fundamental importance for a broad range of phenomena1-3, but their real-time study faces numerous conceptual and methodological challenges4-6. Here, we introduce attosecond size-resolved cluster spectroscopy and build up a molecular-level understanding of the attosecond electron dynamics in water. We measure the effect that the addition of single water molecules has on the photoionization time delays7-9 of water clusters. We find a continuous increase of the delay for clusters containing up to 4-5 molecules and little change towards larger clusters. We show that these delays are proportional to the spatial extension of the created electron hole, which first increases with cluster size and then partially localizes through the onset of structural disorder that is characteristic of large clusters and bulk liquid water. These results suggest a previously unknown sensitivity of photoionization delays to electron-hole delocalization and indicate a direct link between electronic structure and attosecond photoionization dynamics. Our results offer novel perspectives for studying electron/hole delocalization and its attosecond dynamics.
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Asmussen JD, Michiels R, Bangert U, Sisourat N, Binz M, Bruder L, Danailov M, Di Fraia M, Feifel R, Giannessi L, Plekan O, Prince KC, Squibb RJ, Uhl D, Wituschek A, Zangrando M, Callegari C, Stienkemeier F, Mudrich M. Time-Resolved Ultrafast Interatomic Coulombic Decay in Superexcited Sodium-Doped Helium Nanodroplets. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:4470-4478. [PMID: 35561339 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c00645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The autoionization dynamics of superexcited superfluid He nanodroplets doped with Na atoms is studied by extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) time-resolved electron spectroscopy. Following excitation into the higher-lying droplet absorption band, the droplet relaxes into the lowest metastable atomic 1s2s 1,3S states from which interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) takes place either between two excited He atoms or between an excited He atom and a Na atom attached to the droplet surface. Four main ICD channels are identified, and their decay times are determined by varying the delay between the XUV pulse and a UV pulse that ionizes the initial excited state and thereby quenches ICD. The decay times for the different channels all fall in the range of ∼1 ps, indicating that the ICD dynamics are mainly determined by the droplet environment. A periodic modulation of the transient ICD signals is tentatively attributed to the oscillation of the bubble forming around the localized He excitation.
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- Jakob D Asmussen
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, 75005 Paris, France
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- Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg, 41133 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., 34149 Basovizza TS, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., 34149 Basovizza TS, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., 34149 Basovizza TS, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg, 41133 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., 34149 Basovizza TS, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., 34149 Basovizza TS, Italy
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- Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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