Complete dissociation branching fractions and Coulomb explosion dynamics of SO2 induced by excitation of O 1s pre-edge resonances

• Fragmentation processes of SO2 following excitation of the six main O 1s pre-edge resonances, as well as above the ionization threshold and below the resonances, are studied using a position-sensitive time-of-flight ion imaging detector, and the associated dissociation branching ratios and break-up dynamics are determined. In order to distinguish between the O+ and S2+ fragments of equal mass-to-charge ratio, the measurements have been performed with the isotopically enriched (SO2)-O-18 sample. By analysis of the complete set of the fragment momentum vectors, the beta values for the fragments originating from the SO+ + O+ break-up and the kinetic energy release for fragmentation channels of both SO22+ and SO23+ parent ions are determined. We also present results on the three-body break-up dynamics. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

absolute oscillator-strengths

triple coincidence technique

kinetic-energy release

2s inner shells

sulfur-dioxide

ionic

photofragmentation

double photoionization

asymmetry parameters

2p

photoexcitation

double-ionization

Physics

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