Core-hole-clock spectroscopies in the tender x-ray domain

Abstract

The core-hole-clock method to observe dynamical phenomena in molecular photoexcitation on the 1 fs–hundreds-of-attoseconds time scale is illustrated with examples from resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) and resonant-Auger-emission experiments on the prototypical CH3Cl system in the tender x-ray domain. In particular, a direct comparison between RIXS and resonant-Auger data allows us to unravel subtle details of nuclear motion and interplay of potential curves of the intermediate and final states reached upon deep-core excitation.