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Imaging the Renner-Teller effect using laser-induced electron diffraction
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Structural information on electronically excited neutral molecules can be indirectly retrieved, largely through pump-probe and rotational spectroscopy measurements with the aid of calculations. Here, we demonstrate the direct F structural retrieval of neutral carbonyl disulfide (CS2) in the (B) over tilde (1) B-2 excited electronic state using laser-induced electron diffraction (LIED). We unambiguously identify the ultrafast symmetric stretching and bending of the field-dressed neutral CS2 molecule with combined picometer and attosecond resolution using intrapulse pump-probe excitation and measurement.We invoke the Renner-Teller effect to populate the (B) over tilde (1) B-2 excited state in neutral CS2, leading to bending and stretching of the molecule. Our results demonstrate the sensitivity of LIED in retrieving the geometric structure of CS2, which is known to appear as a two-center scatterer.
Keywords:
structural dynamics
electron diffraction
attosecond wave packet
laser-induced electron diffraction
nonadiabatic dynamics
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