Molecular frame photoelectron angular distribution for oxygen 1s photoemission from CO2 molecules

Abstract

We have measured photoelectron angular distributions in the molecular frame (MF-PADs) for O 1s photoemission from CO2, using photoelectron-O+-CO+ coincidence momentum imaging. Results for the molecular axis at 0, 45 and 90°to the electric vector of the light are reported. The major features of the MF-PADs are fairly well reproduced by calculations employing a relaxed-core Hartree-Fock approach. Weak asymmetric features are seen through a plane perpendicular to the molecular axis and attributed to symmetry lowering by anti-symmetric stretching motion. © 2005 IOP Publishing Ltd.