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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c05364
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Pulsed molecular beams allow high-density gas samples to be cooled and produce narrow speed distributions. This paper reports the production of pulsed H atom beams with a pulse duration of 700 ps, which were used for differential resolved inelastic H scattering experiments on a graphene surface.
Pulsed molecular beams allow high-density gas samples to be cooled to low internal temperatures and to produce narrow speed distributions. They are particularly useful in combination with pulsed-laser-based detection schemes and have also been used as pump pulses in pump-probe experiments with neutral matter. The mechanical response of pulsed valves and chopper wheels limits the duration of these pulses typically to about 10-100 mu s. Bunch compression photolysis has been proposed as a means to produce atomic pulses shorter than 1 ns-an experimental capability that would allow new measurements to be made on chemical systems. This technique employs a spatially chirped femtosecond duration photolysis pulse that produced an ensemble of H atom photoproducts that rebunches into a short pulse downstream. To date, this technique could not produce strong enough beams to allow new experiments to be carried out. In this paper, we report production of pulsed H atom beams consistent with a 700 ps pulse duration and with sufficient intensity to carry out differentially resolved inelastic H scattering experiments from a graphene surface. We observe surprisingly narrow angular distributions for H atoms incident normal to the surface. At low incidence energies quasi-elastic scattering dominates, and at high incidence energy we observe a strongly inelastic scattering channel. These results provide the basis for future experiments where the H atoms synchronously collide with a pulsed-laser-excited surface.
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