Signatures of collective electron dynamics in the angular distributions of electrons ejected during ultrashort laser pulse interactions with C⁺

Abstract

We use the time-dependent R-matrix approach to investigate an ultrashort pump–probe scheme to observe collective electron dynamics in C+ driven by the repulsion of two equivalent p electrons. By studying the two-dimensional momentum distributions of the ejected electron as a function of the time-delay between an ultrashort pump pulse and an ionizing ultrashort probe pulse it is possible to track the collective dynamics inside the C+ ion in the time domain.