Delta

Fast Beam Associative Ionization

Delta is the latest incarnation of our instrument formerly known as Beta. It is being commissioned for fast (1 keV) intrabeam associative ionization employing electron-ion coincidence imaging. This effort is supported by AFOSR.

Selected Beta Publications

C. D. Foley, C. Xie, H. Guo, A. G. Suits, “Orbiting Resonances in Formaldehyde Reveal Coupling of Roaming, Radical and Molecular Channels,” Science (2021) 374, 1122-1127.
DOI: 10.1126/science.abk0634

C. D. Foley, G. A. Cooper, J. Tu, M. Harmata and A. G. Suits, “HDCO Radical dissociation thresholds by velocity map imaging,” Mol. Phys. (2020) DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2020.1813344

C. Weeraratna, O. S. Vasyutinskii, and A. G. Suits, “Photodissociation by Circularly Polarized Light Yields Photofragment Alignment Arising Solely from Vibronic Interactions,” Phys. Rev. Lett. (2019) 122, 083403. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.083403