Field ionization measurements of high-n CH(3)I and C(2)H(5)I Rydberg states doped into krypton are presented as a function of krypton number density along the critical isotherm. These data exhibit a decrease in the krypton-induced shift of the dopant ionization energy near the critical point. This change in shift is modeled to within +/-0.2% of experiment using a theory that accounts for the po...

Intense, 100 fs laser pulses at 3.2 and 3.6 μm are used to generate, by multiphoton ionization, broadband wave packets with up to 400 eV of kinetic energy and charge states up to Xe(+6). The multiple ionization pathways are well described by a white electron wave packet and field-free inelastic cross sections, averaged over the intensity-dependent energy distribution for (e, ne) electron impact...

Very few investigations have been carried out so far on the direct photo ionization of non-polar liquids. Vermeil et al. [1] detected an increase of conductivity in some liquid hydrocarbons when subjected to the light of rare gas resonance lamps. Recently similar experiments were performed by Casanovas and co-workers at the University of Toulouse [2, 3]. It was estimated that the ionization thr...

Track structure Monte Carlo simulations are frequently applied in micro- and nanodosimetry to calculate the radiation transport in detail. The use of a well-validated set of cross section data in such simulation codes ensures accurate calculations of transport parameters, such as ionization yields. These cross section data are, however, scarce and often discrepant when measured by different gro...

The singlet states of the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond play a key role its optical spin control and readout. In this work, hitherto unknown ionization energy is measured experimentally found to be range 1.91--2.25 eV. This obtained by analyzing photoluminescence measurements incorporating charge state differentiation, along with simulations based on nitrogen-vacancy's ...

Direct dissociative ionization is the simplest three-body breakup process in H2. We describe the experimental verification of direct dissociative ionization to the repulsive A2Sigma(+)(u) state by resolving the kinetic energy and angular distributions of the formed protons. A (2+1) resonant enhanced multiphoton ionization process via the isotropic E,F (1)Sigma(+)(g)(v = 6,J = 0) level is employ...

The kinetic energy spectra of D+ ions resulting from the sequential double ionization of D2 molecules in an intense few-cycle laser field are calculated. The D2 molecule is first ionized at its equilibrium distance, followed by further ionization of D2 + at larger internuclear separations. The time evolution of the nuclear wave packet is calculated including loss from ionization by the time-dep...

Recent progress in femtosecond (fs) tera-watt (TW) laser development has raised a new fundamental question in atomic and molecular physics, i.e., how atoms and molecules react against an intense electromagnetic field. As is well known, an atom exposed to photons of relatively low flux density is ionized only if the photon energy exceeds the ionization potential of the atom. On the other hand, w...