Photoionization dynamics: Photoemission in the molecular frame of small molecules ionized by linearly and elliptically polarized light

Dynamical Processes In Atomic And Molecular Physics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 57-95

  Dowek, Danielle ^a   Lucchese, Robert R ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES MOLÉCULAIRES D ORSAY   (France)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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