by
Kopin Liu(Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences)
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Europe/Stockholm
FA 32, Alba Nova
FA 32, Alba Nova
Description
Over the past few years we have developed a novel time-sliced ion
velocity-imaging technique for crossed molecular beam studies of elementary
chemical reactions. A number of polyatomic reactions involving methane with
F, Cl, O(3P) and OH have been investigated using this powerful technique.
What have been uncovered in those studies are the unprecedented
state-correlation of coincident product pairs, or the joint probability
distributions, from which many hidden or otherwise lost information of
polyatomic reaction dynamics can be retrieved. In this talk, I will elucidate
the basic idea behind that experimental approach, and exemplify a few
systems to illustrate the new dynamical information thus obtained.
