Enormous enhancement of molecular ionization at high x-ray intensity

Ludger Inhester, Yajiang Hao, Sang-Kil Son, and Robin Santra

[BibTeX][pdf]http://www.icpeac2019.frdoi:10.1088/1742-6596/1412/15/152051

The ultra-intense and ultra-short x-ray pulses provided by X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFELs) sequentially ionize molecular samples many times. In this context, we have recently discovered that under intense x-ray radiation the total charge of a molecule is enhanced compared to the sum of charges of its constituent isolated atoms. We report here on new theoretical results for iodobenzene (C₆H₅I) that show an even stronger ionization enhancement than previously observed for iodomethane (CH₃I). The abstract is published in J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1412, 152051 (2020).

Tags: XMOLECULE, iodobenzene, CH3I, CREXIM, XFEL, CFEL, DESY