Projektnummer

0059174

Zusammenfassung

Energy-transfer mechanisms in molecules drive crucial phenomena in nature, such as DNA repair and photosynthesis. Understanding and controlling these processes is an important research field shared by physics, chemistry, and biology. Within this project, the relaxation dynamics of innershell-ionized molecules is investigated using UV pump X-ray probe experiments. In particular, the interatomic/intermolecular Coulomb decay (ICD) in model systems and its competition with other electronic relaxation processes, like electron transfer and Auger decay, is measured. ICD is a decay mechanism o...