Electron-ion coincidence spectrometer for studies on decay dynamics of core-excited molecules

We have developed an Auger electron-ion coincidence spectrometer to measure energy- and angular-correlations among the particles ejected on decay of core-excited/ionized molecules. The apparatus consists of a double toroidal electron analyzer and a three-dimensional ion momentum spectrometer, both of which are terminated by time- and position-sensitive detectors. For extracting the ions into the ion momentum spectrometer, a pulsed electric field is applied to the interaction region, according to each Auger electron observation. To evaluate the performance of the ion momentum spectrometer, momentum vectors of fragment ions produced through the dissociation from the selected molecular ion states following N-2 core photoionization have been observed. The momentum, energy and angular resolutions achieved by the spectrometer have been estimated from the events associated with the formation of N-2(2+) and with the pair formation of N+ + N+. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.