Electron-nuclear energy sharing in above-threshold multiphoton dissociative ionization of H2

Phys Rev Lett. 2013 Jul 12;111(2):023002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.023002. Epub 2013 Jul 9.

Abstract

We report experimental observation of the energy sharing between electron and nuclei in above-threshold multiphoton dissociative ionization of H2 by strong laser fields. The absorbed photon energy is shared between the ejected electron and nuclei in a correlated fashion, resulting in multiple diagonal lines in their joint energy spectrum governed by the energy conservation of all fragment particles.