Atomic and Molecular Beams: The State of the Art 2000

Front Matter....Pages I-XXXI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Atomic and Molecular Beams in Chemical Physics: A Continuing Odyssey....Pages 3-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Foreword: Laser Cooling and Trapping of Neutral Atoms....Pages 43-62
Optics and Interferometry with Atoms and Molecules....Pages 63-80
Some New Effects in Atom Stern-Gerlach Interferometry....Pages 81-94
Atom Optics and Atom Polarization Interferometry Using Pulsed Magnetic Fields....Pages 95-103
Making Molecules at MicroKelvin....Pages 105-111
Molecular Photoassociation and Ultracold Molecules....Pages 113-132
Molecular Optics in Intense Fields: From Lenses to Mirrors....Pages 133-144
Ultrashort Wavepacket Dynamics and Interferences in Alkali Atoms....Pages 145-160
Atomic Beam Spin Echo. Principle and Surface Science Application....Pages 161-174
Sufficient Conditions for Quantum Reflection with Real Gas-Surface Interaction Potentials....Pages 175-183
Focusing Helium Atom Beams Using Single Crystal Surfaces....Pages 183-194
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Atom Lithography with Cesium Atomic Beams....Pages 195-206
The Physics of Plasma Expansion....Pages 209-235
Laser Sustained Plasma Free Jet and Energetic Atom Beam of Pure Argon or Oxygen Seeded Argon Mixture....Pages 237-251
Doppler Profiles of the Distribution of O( 1 D) Relaxing in Ne....Pages 253-262
Natural Alignment and Cooling in Seeded Supersonic Free Jets: Experiments and a Quantum Mechanical View....Pages 263-272
Nonequilibrium Distributions of Rotational Energies of K 2 Seeded in a Free-Jet of Argon....Pages 273-282
Rotational and Vibrational Relaxation of Hydrides in Free Jets: HBr and OH....Pages 283-294
Raman Studies of Free Jet Expansion (Diagnostics and Mapping)....Pages 295-306
Front Matter....Pages 315-315
Mixed Clusters Produced in Argon-Nitrogen Coexpansions as Evidenced by Two Experimental Methods....Pages 307-314
Imaging of State-to-State Photodynamics of Nitrous Oxide in the 205 nm Region of the Stratospheric Solar Window....Pages 317-330
The Photodissociation Dynamics of Tropospheric Ozone....Pages 331-342
Photodissociation of NO 2 near 225 nm by Velocity Map Imaging....Pages 343-352
The (Ba · ·FCH 3 ) Photofragmentation Channels: Dynamics of the Laser Induced Intrachister (Ba · ·FCH 3 ) → + BaF + CH3 and Ba + FCH 3 Reaction....Pages 353-366
Electronic Spectroscopy and Excited State Dynamics of Aluminium Atom-Molecule Complexes....Pages 367-378
Electronic Spectra of Cold Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) Cations in a Molecular Beam....Pages 379-392
Structure and Dynamics of van der Waals Complexes by High Resolution Spectroscopy....Pages 393-404
Front Matter....Pages 413-413
Femtosecond Pump-Probe Experiments with a High Repetition Rate Molecular Beam....Pages 405-412
Femtochemistry: Recent Progress in Studies of Dynamics and Control of Reactions and Their Transition States....Pages 415-476
Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Collisional Induced Recombination: A Simple Theoretical Approach....Pages 477-484
Direct Observation of Collisions by Laser Excitation of the Collision Pair....Pages 485-496
Counterpropagating Pulsed Molecular Beam Scattering....Pages 497-518
Ion Imaging Studies of Chemical Dynamics....Pages 519-528
Orientation of Parity-Selected NO and Its Steric Asymmetry in Rotational Energy Transfer Collisions....Pages 529-542
Collisional Energy Dependence of Insertion Dynamics: State-Resolved Angular Distributions for S( 1 D) + D 2 → SD + D....Pages 543-553
High Resolution Translational Spectroscopic Studies of Elementary Chemical Processes....Pages 555-578
Reaction Kinetics in Uniform Supersonic Flows at Very Low Temperatures....Pages 579-590
Ion-Neutral Collisions in Beam Experiments. Production of ArN n+ ( n = 1,2) in the Reaction of Ar n+ with N 2 ....Pages 591-598
Front Matter....Pages 613-613
Crossed Beams and Theoretical Study of the (NaRb) + Collisional System....Pages 599-612
Front Matter....Pages 613-613
Diffraction of Cluster Beams from Nanoscale Transmission Gratings....Pages 615-622
Electron Impact Fragmentation of Size Selected Ar n ( n =4 to 9) Clusters....Pages 623-636
Static Dipole Polarizability of Free Alkali Clusters....Pages 637-646
Photodissociation of Water Clusters....Pages 647-656
Collision Induced Fragmentation of Molecules and Small Na + n Clusters: Competition Between Impulsive and Electronic Mechanisms....Pages 657-666
Charge Exchange in Atom-Cluster Collisions....Pages 667-682
Electron Attachment to Oxygen and Nitric Oxide Clusters....Pages 683-692
Internal Energy Distributions in Cluster Ions....Pages 693-700
Molecular Beams of Silicon Clusters and Nanoparticles Produced by Laser Pyrolysis of Gas Phase Reactants....Pages 701-708
Front Matter....Pages 709-720
Spectroscopy in, on, and off a Beam of Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets....Pages 721-721
Spectroscopy of Single Molecules and Clusters Inside Superfluid Helium Droplets....Pages 723-754
The Spectroscopy of Molecules and Unique Clusters in Superfluid Helium Droplets....Pages 755-774
Electronic Structure and Dynamics of Solute Molecules on Solution Surfaces by Use of Liquid Beam Multiphoton Ionization Mass Spectrometry....Pages 775-792
Shedding Light on Heavy Molecules, One by One....Pages 793-803
Molecular Beam Studies of DNA Bases....Pages 805-814
Reaction Between Barium and N 2 O on Large Neon Clusters....Pages 815-825
Capture and Coagulation of CO Molecules to Small Clusters in Large Supercooled H 2 Droplets....Pages 827-838
Front Matter....Pages 839-846
Essentials of Cluster Impact Chemistry....Pages 847-847
Probing the Dynamics of Chemisorption Through Scattering and Sticking....Pages 849-872
Front Matter....Pages 873-886
Product State Measurements of Nitrogen Formation at Surfaces....Pages 847-847
Enrichment of Binary van der Waals Clusters Surviving Surface Collision....Pages 887-900
Collision Dynamics of Water Clusters on a Solid Surface: Molecular Dynamics and Molecular Beam Studies....Pages 901-908
Hyperthernial Fullerene-Surface Collisions: Energy Transfer and Charge Exchange....Pages 909-916
Electron Emission Induced by Cluster-Surface Collisions: a Fingerprint of the Neutralization Dynamics?....Pages 917-931
Supersonic Beam Epitaxy of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors....Pages 933-944
Chemical Maps and SEM Images of the Reaction Products on Si Surfaces Irradiated with Cold and Hot C 2 H 4 Beams....Pages 945-958
Front Matter....Pages 959-970
Macro, Micro and Nanobeams....Pages 971-971
Back Matter....Pages 973-988
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