Recoil ion momentum spectroscopy

In the past few years there has been a very intense effort to understand the process of single ionization in ion-atom collisions. Experiments in this area have followed largely along three main paths recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy... 

In Section III we discuss the applicability of these models for kinematically complete experiments on target single ionization in ion-atom collisions, which have been performed using the technique of recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy. The examples illustrated will include the pioneering experiments [2,4,5] of... 

After several decades of systematic electron spectroscopy in ion-atom collisions by many groups (for recent reviews see Refs. 13 and 51), there are only two data sets of doubly differential experimental cross sections cfa/dE dfl for the emission of electrons with < 1 eV. It has been only recently that, with entirely new and extremely efficient electron spectrometers combined with recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy [52], doubly differential cross sections for ultralow -and low-energy electrons (1.5 meV < < 100 eV) have been obtained by... 

This review illustrates the complementary nature of recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy, projectile scattering measurements, and conventional electron emission spectroscopy in ion-atom ionizing collisions. We have examined recent applications of both the CDW and CDW-EIS approximations from this perspective. We have shown that both models provide a flexible and quite accurate theory of ionization in ion-atom collisions at intermediate and high energies and also allows simple physical analysis of the ionization process from the perspective of these different experimental techniques. 

R. Dorner, V. Mergel, O. Jagutzki, L. Spielberger, J. Ullrich, R. Moshammer, et al., Cold target recoil ion momentum spectroscopy A momentum microscope to view atomic collision dynamics, Phys. Rep. 330 (2000) 95. 

A simple mass spectrometric experiment with a well-defined positron beam would give us much useful information. Much more information would be obtained by the application of recoil ion momentum spectroscopy (RIMS) [23, 24] to annihilation from positron-molecule resonances. This would provide the energies and masses of all the ionic fragments. One possible configuration of a RIMS spectrometer involves crossed beams of a supersonic molecular beam of target molecules and a pulsed beam of positrons. This experiment is possible with existing technology [25]. 

TABLE 7.1 Participating teams in the HITRAP EU RTD Network (RIMS Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy, HFS HyperFine Structure)... 

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