Dynamics of electromagnetically induced water molecule fragmentation

Abstract

The development of intense high-energy radiation sources and the improvement of techniques for detecting charged fragments have made possible experiments on multiple ionization of a molecule with registration of the momentum and charge of dissociation products in coincidence. This technique allows to determine (`fix') a molecular geometry at the time of fragmentation and called fixed-in-space molecule. In this work, the dynamics the water molecule dissociation fragments resulting from interaction with intense X-ray radiation has been studied. The charge distribution of oxygen ions was calculated, Newton diagrams were constructed for fragments - protons and the oxygen ion - for various charge states of the latter, and the released kinetic energy was evaluated. Calculations were performed using the [1]code for parameters close to [2]. The predictions for the different pulse parameters are done.