Attosecond tracing of correlated electron-emission in non-sequential double ionization

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bergues, Boris ^a   Kübel, Matthias ^a   Johnson, Nora G ^a,b   Fischer, Bettina ^c   Camus, Nicolas ^c   Betsch, Kelsie J ^a,d   Herrwerth, Oliver ^a   Senftleben, Arne ^c   Sayler, A Max ^e,f   Rathje, Tim ^e,f   Pfeifer, Thomas ^c   Ben Itzhak, Itzik ^b   Jones, Robert R ^d   Paulus, Gerhard G ^e,f   Krausz, Ferenc ^a   Moshammer, Robert ^c   Ullrich, Joachim ^c,g   Kling, Matthias F ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^f HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

^g PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; IONIZATION; LASER;

EID: 84867021475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1807     Document Type: Article

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