Imaging in Molecular Dynamics Technology and Applications

About this book

Charged particle imaging has revolutionized experimental studies of photodissociation and bimolecular collisions. Written in a tutorial style by some of the key practitioners in the field, this book gives a comprehensive account of the technique and describes many of its applications. The book is split into two parts. Part I is intended as a series of tutorials. It explains the basic principles of the experiment and the numerical methods involved in interpreting experimental data. Part II describes a number of different applications. These chapters are more directly research oriented, the aim being to introduce the reader to the possibilities for future experiments. This comprehensive book will be of primary interest to researchers and graduate students working in chemical and molecular physics who require an overview of the subject as well as ideas for future experiments.

Contents

List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements Benjamin J. Whitaker; List of abbreviations; Part I. Technology: 1. Charged particle imaging in chemical dynamics: an historical perspective Paul L. Houston; 2. Velocity map imaging: applications in molecular dynamics and experimental aspects David H. Parker and Andre T. J. B. Eppink; 3. Reconstruction methods Andre T. J. B. Eppink, Shiou-Min Wu and Benjamin J. Whitaker; 4. Orientation and alignment T. Peter Rakitzis; 5. Time resolved cameras Daniel Zaifman, Oded Heber and Daniel Strasser; 6. 3-D imaging technique - observation of the three-dimensional product momentum distribution Alexei I. Chichinin, Tina S. Einfeld, Karl-Heinz Gericke and Christof Maul; 7. Photoelectron and photoion imaging with femtosecond pump-probe time clocking Toshinori Suzuki and Benjamin J. Whitaker; Part II. Applications: 8. Kinematically complete imaging of molecular many-body fragmentation: coincident multi-particle detection and analysis Ulrich Muller and Hanspeter Helm; 9. Collisions of HC1 with molecular colliders at #540 cm-1 collision energy Elisabeth A. Wade, K. Thomas Lorenz, James L. Springfield and David W. Chandler; 10. Measurement of state-resolved differential cross-sections of bimolecular reactions using single beam velocity imaging T. Peter Rakitzis and Theofanis N. Kitsopoulos; 11. Slice imaging: a new approach to ion imaging and velocity mapping T. Peter Rakitzis and Theofanis N. Kitsopoulos; Index.

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Reader in Chemical Physics in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Leeds.