Photoemission study of Iodoalkanes
Abstract
Core level atomic photoionization is influenced by the molecular environment of the emitting atom. To probe this influence we used extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation to measure the I(4d→ε f ) photoemission of four iodine substituted alkanes in the range from 60 eV to 160 eV photon energy. Using two detection angles relative to light polarization allowed us to extract and compare the asymmetry parameter of the investigated compounds. These results are in agreement with theory by Pi and Landsman (L.-W. Pi and A. Landsman, Attosecond time delay in photoionization of noble-gas and halogen atoms, Applied Sciences 8, 322 (2018)) and previous experiments by Olney et al. (T. N. Olney, G. Cooper, and C. Brion, Quantitative studies of the photoabsorption (4.5-488 ev) and photoionization (9-59.5 ev) of methyl iodide using dipole electron impact techniques, Chemical Physics 232, 211 (1998)) for iodomethane. 2-iodopropane behaves nearly identical to iodomethane, while for iodoethane and 1-iodopropane we find a distinct and consistent, energy dependant difference most prominent at around 130 eV photon energy. This further proves the influence of the chemical environment on core level photoionization. Due to the sensitivity on the exact positions of the carbon atoms and the energy dependence we hypothesise this difference is caused by intramolecular scattering of the outgoing photoelectron wave packet, causing changes in the angular distribution.
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BibTeX
@misc{forster2026photoemission,
title = {{Photoemission study of Iodoalkanes}},
author = {Maximilian Forster and Maximilian Pollanka and Sven-Joachim Paul and Pascal Freisinger and Christian Schröder and Robert Richter and Michele Alagia and Alessio Bruno and Stefano Stranges and Reinhard Kienberger},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.19055},
eprint = {2610.19055},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.19055},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Photoemission study of Iodoalkanes
AU - Maximilian Forster
AU - Maximilian Pollanka
AU - Sven-Joachim Paul
AU - Pascal Freisinger
AU - Christian Schröder
AU - Robert Richter
AU - Michele Alagia
AU - Alessio Bruno
AU - Stefano Stranges
AU - Reinhard Kienberger
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/13
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.19055
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.19055
AB - Core level atomic photoionization is influenced by the molecular environment of the emitting atom. To probe this influence we used extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation to measure the I(4d→ε f ) photoemission of four iodine substituted alkanes in the range from 60 eV to 160 eV photon energy. Using two detection angles relative to light polarization allowed us to extract and compare the asymmetry parameter of the investigated compounds. These results are in agreement with theory by Pi and Landsman (L.-W. Pi and A. Landsman, Attosecond time delay in photoionization of noble-gas and halogen atoms, Applied Sciences 8, 322 (2018)) and previous experiments by Olney et al. (T. N. Olney, G. Cooper, and C. Brion, Quantitative studies of the photoabsorption (4.5-488 ev) and photoionization (9-59.5 ev) of methyl iodide using dipole electron impact techniques, Chemical Physics 232, 211 (1998)) for iodomethane. 2-iodopropane behaves nearly identical to iodomethane, while for iodoethane and 1-iodopropane we find a distinct and consistent, energy dependant difference most prominent at around 130 eV photon energy. This further proves the influence of the chemical environment on core level photoionization. Due to the sensitivity on the exact positions of the carbon atoms and the energy dependence we hypothesise this difference is caused by intramolecular scattering of the outgoing photoelectron wave packet, causing changes in the angular distribution.
ER -