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Phys. Rev. A 59, R1727–R1730 (1999)

Real-time study of the femtosecond harpooning reaction in Ba⋯FCH3

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V. Stert1, P. Farmanara1, W. Radloff1,*, F. Noack1, S. Skowronek2, J. Jimenez2, and A. González Ureña2
1Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik and Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Rudower Chaussee 6, 12489 Berlin, Germany
2Unidad de Laseres y Haces Moleculares, Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Paseo Juan XXIII-1, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Received 30 June 1998; published in the issue dated March 1999

A real-time observation of an ultrafast intracluster harpooning reaction in an electronically excited metal atom-molecule complex is reported. Using the laser pump-probe technique the intracluster bimolecular reaction Ba⋯FCH3→BaF+CH3 has been investigated both in the real-time and frequency domains. The directly measured reaction time of 250 fs is in very good agreement with the decay time obtained by inverse Fourier transformation of the photodepletion spectrum of the parent Ba⋯FCH3 cluster.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.59.R1727
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.59.R1727
PACS:
34.50.Ez

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