Abstract

Contemporary intense-field dissociative ionization process in diatomic systems, Coulomb explosions, always involve the ejection of multiple electrons, resulting in atomic nuclei in several ionization stages with a variety of kinetic energies. This has led to some ambiguity in the interpretation of experimental results and hence the development of an appropriate model of intense-field dissociative ionization. Part of the problem lies in the importance of asymmetric dissociation events or the proper sequencing of ionization and dissociation events.

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