TY - JOUR AB - Molecular photoelectrons have been observed to be spin polarized even if ejected from a beam of randomly oriented molecules by unpolarized radiation. The polarization and the asymmetry parameter [Beta] for Br2, I2, CH3Br, and CH3I are compared with general predictions of a nonrelativistic model. While all available data of the differential cross section agree with this prediction, spin-polarization results partly disagree, manifesting the influence of the spin-orbit interaction upon the phases of molecular continuum wave functions. DA - 1984 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.811 LA - eng IS - 10 M2 - 811 PY - 1984 SN - 0031-9007 SP - 811-814 T2 - Physical review letters TI - Spin-Polarized Photoelectrons from Randomly Oriented Halogen Molecules by Unpolarized Radiation UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-17752924 Y2 - 2024-11-22T09:12:57 ER -