Session A26: Focus Session: Photophysics of Cold Molecules I

8:00 AM–11:00 AM, Monday, March 10, 2008
Morial Convention Center - 218

Sponsoring Unit: DCP
Chair: Andrey Vilesov, University of Southern California

Abstract ID: BAPS.2008.MAR.A26.6

Abstract: A26.00006 : Photoelectron imaging of doped helium nanodroplets

9:24 AM–9:36 AM

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Author:

  Daniel Neumark
    (University of California, Berkeley)

Photoelectron images of helium nanodroplets doped with Kr and Ne atoms are reported. The images and resulting photoelectron spectra were obtained using tunable synchrotron radiation to ionize the droplets. Droplets were excited at 21.6 eV, corresponding to a strong droplet electronic excitation. The rare gas dopant is then ionized via a Penning excitation transfer process. The electron kinetic energy distributions reflect complex ionization and electron escape dynamics.

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