Energy Transfer and Reaction of Excited Metal Atoms and Dimers

实验物理化学项目支持教授 布雷肯里奇在继续调查的细节， 涉及激发态金属的能量传递和化学反应 原子和二聚体。 这项工作将有助于促进一个 加强对基本过程的一般了解， 碰撞动力学 金属原子和二聚体是用脉冲激光产生的 蒸发源 第二束激光产生激发的金属 并且第三激光器用于探测反应产物，或者 非弹性能量转移后碰撞相互作用的一个 目标原子或分子。 此外，布雷肯里奇是 研究激发态之间的能量传递和反应 原子和分子最初结合在一个货车范德华络合物中。 复合物首先在超声膨胀中形成 在激光蒸发之后，金属原子被选择性地 在络合物中激发，所得产物是 在碰撞过程中被检测到。 这种“半碰撞” 实验通常可以用来提供独特的选择性， 初始分子几何形状，轨道排列， 相互作用系统的角动量

The Experimental Physical Chemistry Program supports Professor Breckenridge in a continuing investigation of the details of energy transfer and chemical reaction involving excited metal atoms and dimers. This work will help contribute to an enhanced general understanding of fundamental processes in collision dynamics. Metal atoms and dimers are being generated using a pulsed laser vaporization source. A second laser produces the excited metal and a third laser is used to probe the products of reaction or inelastic energy transfer after collisional interaction with a target atom or molecule. In addition, Breckenridge is investigating energy transfer and reaction between excited atoms and molecules initially bound in a van der Waals complex. The complexes are first formed in a supersonic expansion following the laser vaporization, the metal atom is selectively excited within the complex, and the resultant products are detected as in the collisional process. This "half-collision" experiment can often be used to provide unique selectivity on the initial molecular geometries, orbital alignments, and angular momenta of interacting systems.