ERC Starting Grant · 2022
X-ray photons carry sufficient energy to interact with molecular core-shell’s electrons. Accessible for decades in the energy domain, the resulting core-excited states (CES) can now be observed in the time domain using attosecond (10-18 s) spectroscopy. These states are important as they govern the lineshapes in all x-ray spectroscopies. Here, we propose to first investigate and then manipulate the CES time evolution in solvated biomolecules in order to reveal key chemical information – i.e. solute-solvent interactions, local symmetries and chiral fields. CES lifetimes dictate the emission of secondary electrons active in radiotherapy. By observing the effect of solute-solvent interactions…
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