Ultrafast Coulomb explosion of a diiodomethane molecule induced by an X-ray free-electron laser pulse

• DOI: 10.1039/c7cp01669g
• Publication Date: 2017-05-02T16:07:36Z
• Authors: Tsukasa Takanashi; Kosuke Nakamura; Edwin Kukk; Koji Motomura; Hironobu Fukuzawa; Kiyonobu Nagaya; Shin-ichi Wada; Yoshiaki Kumagai; Denys Iablonskyi; Yuta Ito; Yuta Sakakibara; Daehyun You; Toshiyuki Nishiyama; Kazuki Asa; Yuhiro Sato; Takayuki Umemoto; Kango Kariyazono; Kohei Ochiai; Manabu Kanno; Kaoru Yamazaki; Kuno Kooser; Christophe Nicolas; Catalin Miron; Theodor Asavei; Liviu Neagu; Markus Schöffler; Gregor Kastirke; Xiao-Jing Liu; Artem Rudenko; Shigeki Owada; Tetsuo Katayama; Tadashi Togashi; Kensuke Tono; Makina Yabashi; Hirohiko Kono; Kiyoshi Ueda
• Keywords: Coulomb explosion; Diiodomethane

The Coulomb explosion mechanism of a CH₂I₂ molecule is rather different to that CH₃I. kinetic energy iodine ions ∼3 times larger due repulsion the two ions, while carbon almost same for both, as indicated by red arrows represent energies atomic ions.