Abstract

We report the experimental observation of the delayed fragmentation of the weakly bound dimer Kr2+ produced through the single ionization of Kr2 by a femtosecond laser field. The observed time delay between ionization and fragmentation, which reflects the survival time of the resulting Kr2+, is measured on the microsecond timescale. A detailed analysis of the kinetic energy releases of the ejected fragments and photoelectrons suggests that this delayed fragmentation arises from the radiative decay of the long-lived Kr2+, transitioning from the bound state II(1/2u) to the repulsive state I(1/2g).

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