Controlling Low-Energy Electron Emission via Resonant-Auger-Induced Interatomic Coulombic Decay

Miku Kimura; Hironobu Fukuzawa; Tetsuya Tachibana; Yuta Ito; Subhendu Mondal; Misaki Okunishi; Markus Schöffler; Joshua Williams; Yuhai Jiang; Yusuke Tamenori; Norio Saito; Kiyoshi Ueda

doi:10.1021/jz4006674

Controlling Low-Energy Electron Emission via Resonant-Auger-Induced Interatomic Coulombic Decay

J Phys Chem Lett. 2013 Jun 6;4(11):1838-42. doi: 10.1021/jz4006674. Epub 2013 May 17.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ †Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan.
² ‡Institute for Nuclear Physics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt 60438, Germany.
³ ¶Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201210, China.
⁴ §Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan.
⁵ ∥National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), NMIJ, Tsukuba 305-8568, Japan.

PMID: 26283118
DOI: 10.1021/jz4006674

Abstract

We have investigated interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) after resonant Auger decay in Ar2, ArKr, and ArXe following 2p3/2 → 4s and 2p3/2 → 3d excitations in Ar, using momentum-resolved electron-ion-ion coincidence. The results illustrate that ICD induced by the resonant Auger decay is a well-controlled way of producing energy-selected slow electrons at a specific site.

Keywords: interatomic Coulombic decay; rare-gas dimers; resonant Auger decay.