Investigation of the helium dimer vibrational wavefunction using strong laser-fields

  • J. Voigtsberger*
  • , H. K. Kim
  • , H. Sann
  • , M. Waitz
  • , F. Trinter
  • , R. A. Costa-Frage
  • , F. Sturm
  • , A. Kalinin
  • , A. Vredenborg
  • , J. Wu
  • , A. Czasch
  • , O. Jagutzki
  • , L. Ph Schmidt
  • , T. Jahnke
  • , R. Dörner
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The Helium Dimer (4He2), being the largest and most weakly bound diatomic molecule, is a unique system for probing quantum mechanical properties. Recent Experiments did first steps towards measuring the distribution of internuclear distances of the dimer. These measurements, however, only yielded a subset of bond length appearing in the ground state of the Helium dimer. Here we used cold target recoil ion momentum spectroscopy (COLTRIMS) and a femtosecond laser to map its complete vibrational wavefunction and gather the distribution of bond lengths in a much larger range.

Original languageEnglish
Article number032031
JournalJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume388
Issue numberPART 3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event27th International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions, ICPEAC 2011 - Belfast, United Kingdom
Duration: 27 Jul 20112 Aug 2011

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