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Light-pulse pairs reveal the femtosecond decay of an inner-shell hole in xenon atoms

Headline via Phys.org · first report 10 Nov, 07:50 IST, latest 10 Nov, 07:50 IST

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Researchers at the UVSOR Synchrotron Facility (Institute for Molecular Science, Japan) and partner institutions have observed the decay of a xenon 4d core hole, an inner-shell vacancy, directly in the time domain. They used pairs of phase-coherent extreme…

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