- Ablikim, Utuq;
- Bomme, Cédric;
- Xiong, Hui;
- Savelyev, Evgeny;
- Obaid, Razib;
- Kaderiya, Balram;
- Augustin, Sven;
- Schnorr, Kirsten;
- Dumitriu, Ileana;
- Osipov, Timur;
- Bilodeau, René;
- Kilcoyne, David;
- Kumarappan, Vinod;
- Rudenko, Artem;
- Berrah, Nora;
- Rolles, Daniel
An experimental route to identify and separate geometric isomers by means of coincident Coulomb explosion imaging is presented, allowing isomer-resolved photoionization studies on isomerically mixed samples. We demonstrate the technique on cis/trans 1,2-dibromoethene (C2H2Br2). The momentum correlation between the bromine ions in a three-body fragmentation process induced by bromine 3d inner-shell photoionization is used to identify the cis and trans structures of the isomers. The experimentally determined momentum correlations and the isomer-resolved fragment-ion kinetic energies are matched closely by a classical Coulomb explosion model.