Coulomb explosion imaging

The new model has also been applied to the calculation of thermally averaged probability density functions for the out-of-plane inversion motion of the CH and H3O ions [9]. Such probability densities can be obtained experimentally by means of Coulomb Explosion Imaging (CEI) techniques (see, for example, Refs. [10,11]), and the results in Ref. [9] will be useful in the interpretation of the resulting images, just as analogous calculations of the bending probability distribution for the CHj ion were instrumental in the interpretation of its CEI images (see Refs. [9,12] and references therein). 

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Fig. 1.1. Schematic view of the Coulomb explosion imaging of nuclear dynamics. Molecules exposed to an intense laser field undergo structural deformation in response to the formation of light-dressed potential energy surfaces, and decompose into fragment ions after multiple ionization. Since the momentum vectors of fragment ions sensitively reflect the geometrical structure just before the Coulomb explosion, the ultrafast nuclear dynamics of a molecule in an intense laser field can be elucidated through measurements of the momenta of fragment ions...

Levin, J. Feldman, H. Baer, A. Ben-Hamu, D. Heber, O. Zajfman, D. Vager, Z. Study of unimolecular reactions by Coulomb explosion imaging The nondecaying vinylidene. Phys. Rev. Lett. 1998, 81, 3347-3350. 

CEI Coulomb explosion imaging ZEKE Zero kinetic eneigy... 

Constant, E., H. Stapelfeldt, et al. (1999). Using time resolved coulomb explosion imaging to measure dissociative molecular wave packets. Comm. At. Mol. Phys. Dl, 85. 

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