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    Time-resolved investigation of transient charges in laser-produced nanoplasmas
    (Bristol : IOP Publ., 2015) Schütte, Bernd; Vrakking, Marc J. J.; Rouzée, Arnaud
    We report on the observation of a transient C4+ ion charge state in nanoplasmas produced by the interaction of intense near-infrared (NIR) laser pulses with CH4 clusters. The underlying dynamics are studied by pump-probe spectroscopy, which reveals that the ion charge states are lowered by electron-ion recombination. Furthermore, we present direct evidence that autoionization of multiply-excited ions plays an important role in expanding nanoplasmas, in contrast to models that neglect quantum phenomena.