Photoinduced chemical dynamics of high-spin alkali trimers

Science

Volumn 273, Issue 5275, 1996, Pages 629-631

  Higgins, John ^a   Callegari, Carlo ^a   Reho, James ^a   Stienkemeier, Frank ^b   Ernst, Wolfgang E ^c   Lehmann, Kevin K ^a   Gutowski, Maciej ^d,e   Scoles, Giacinto ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI; DIMER; HELIUM;

CHEMICAL BINDING; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FLUORESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0029745333     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5275.629     Document Type: Review

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29. We gratefully acknowledge fruitful discussions with J. B. Andersor, R. A. Bernheim, and D. Yarkony. We also thank W. S. Warren for the use of the lasers that made these experiments possible. This work was carried out with the support of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (High Energy Density Materials program) under grant F49620-95-1-0086.P0001.