Molecular Ionization Enhancement by Charge Rearrangement at High X-ray Intensity

Ludger Inhester, Kota Hanasaki, Koudai Toyota, Yajiang Hao, Oriol Vendrell, Sang-Kil Son, and Robin Santra

[BibTeX]http://www.up2018.org

We simulated the multi-photon multi-ionization dynamics of an iodomethane molecule, CH₃I, exposed to ultraintense and ultrashort x-ray pulses. The strong ionization causes electronic charge rearrangement in the molecule that leads to an enhanced total charge.

Tags: XMOLECULE, CFEL, DESY