Chiral photoelectron angular distributions from ionization of achiral atomic and molecular species

We show that the combination of two achiral components—an atomic or molecular target plus a circularly polarized photon—can yield chirally structured photoelectron angular distributions. For photoionization of CO, the angular distribution of carbon K-shell photoelectrons is chiral when the molecular...

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Main Authors: Andreas Pier, Kilian Fehre, Sven Grundmann, Isabel Vela-Perez, Nico Strenger, Max Kircher, Dimitrios Tsitsonis, Joshua B. Williams, Arne Senftleben, Thomas Baumert, Markus S. Schöffler, Philipp V. Demekhin, Florian Trinter, Till Jahnke, Reinhard Dörner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-08-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033209