TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOELECTRON ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS: Concepts, Applications, and Directions
Abstract
The use of photoelectron angular distributions (PADs) as a probe in short-pulse, pump-probe scenarios is reviewed. We focus on concepts, on the insight that can be gained through theoretical analysis, on applications, and on future opportunities. Time-resolved PADs are sensitive to both the time-evolving rotational composition of wavepackets and their time-evolving electronic symmetry. The former feature renders this observable a potential probe of molecular structure, intensity effects, and rotational perturbations. The latter feature renders the PAD a potential probe of radiationless transitions.
- Publication:
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Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
- Pub Date:
- October 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1146/annurev.physchem.53.082101.130051
- Bibcode:
- 2002ARPC...53...41S