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The photoionization (PI) is a basic physical process that allows one to directly investigate the molecular structure [1-4]. However, the rich dynamical structure of photoelectron angular distributions (PADs) for fixed-in-space molecules predicted about 30 years ago remains largely unexplored [5] because most of experimental measurements have been performed from an ensemble of randomly distributed molecules in the past.
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Jin, C. (2013). Photoelectron Angular Distributions in Single-Photon Ionization of Aligned N\(_2\) and CO\(_2\) Molecules Using XUV Light. In: Theory of Nonlinear Propagation of High Harmonics Generated in a Gaseous Medium. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01625-2_7
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