TY - GEN A1 - Weinhardt, Lothar A1 - Benkert, Andreas A1 - Meyer, Frank A1 - Blum, Monika A1 - Wilks, Regan G. A1 - Yang, Wan Li A1 - Bär, Marcus A1 - Reinert, Friedrich A1 - Heske, Clemens T1 - Nuclear dynamics and spectator effects in resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering of gas-phase water molecules T2 - The journal of chemical physics N2 - The electronic structure of gas-phase H2O and D2O molecules has been investigated using resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering (RIXS). We observe spectator shifts for all valence orbitals when exciting into the lowest three absorption resonances. Strong changes of the relative valence orbital emission intensities are found when exciting into the different absorption resonances, which can be related to the angular anisotropy of the RIXS process. Furthermore, excitation into the 4a1 resonance leads to nuclear dynamics on the time scale of the RIXS process; we find evidence for vibrational coupling and molecular dissociation in both, the spectator and the participant emission. Y1 - 2013 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-UBICO/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9647 SN - 1089-7690 VL - 136 IS - 14 SP - 144311 ER -