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Faraday Discussion No: 115
Molecular Photoionisation
University of York, UK
3-5 April 2000

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INTRODUCTION

Molecular photoionisation dynamics presents a challenge both from
experiment and theory.  New insight has come from the development and
application of (i) novel experimental techniques, such as ZEKE and
related pulsed-field ionization spectroscopies, anion photodetachment,
time-resolved probing, angular photoelectron measurements, advanced
coincidence techniques and (ii) new theoretical approaches to
quantitatively understand the ionisation dynamics.  There is an interest
in advancing this burgeoning field and very actively studied
applications come from van der Waals and hydrogen bonded molecular
clusters including intra-cluster reactions,  molecular Rydberg states
including their time-resolved dynamics and their stability in fields,
Multichannel Quantum Defect and scattering theory, Rydberg state
tagging, molecular and cluster anion photodetachment, radicals, charge
transfer, and correlated two-electron ionisation processes.

The Discussion is intended to bring together practitioners of the
broadest range of photoionisation, photodetachment and charge transfer
experiments, spectroscopists, molecular physicists and theoreticians
working on angular momentum transfer, scattering theory, electron
correlation and on non-Born-Oppenheimer effects in Rydberg states. The
aim is to establish state-of-the-art applications in chemistry and
molecular physics, while focussing on the immediate future prospects of
this whole area of research.

Professor Klaus Müller-Dethlefs
Chairman, Faraday Discussion 115
University of York, UK

PROGRAMME

The Discussion will comprise 4 sessions and a poster session, the first
session commencing after lunch on Monday 3 April 2000, and the final
session ending at lunchtime on Wednesday 5 April 2000.  The papers
listed below will be presented and discussed during the course of the
meeting although not necessarily in the stated order.  The time at which
each paper will be given will depend on their grouping and on the length
of the discussion periods.


THE PRESIDENT:	Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas CChem FRSC FRSE FRS

PROVISIONAL	Monday 3 April 2000	Session 1:	14.00 - 18:00 hrs
SESSION TIMES:	POSTER SESSION		19.30 hrs

	Tuesday 4 April 2000	Session 2:	09.00 - 12.30 hrs
		Session 3:	13.30 - 17.30 hrs

	Wednesday 5 April 2000	Session 4:	09.00 – 13.00 hrs


INTRODUCTORY LECTURE:
Probing Wavepacket Dynamics with Femtosecond Energy - and Angle-resolved
Photoelectron Spectra
K Takatsuka and Y Arasaki, University of Tokyo, Japan, and
K Wang and B V McKoy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA



Towards Disentangling Coupled Electronic-vibrational Dynamics in
Ultrafast Non-adiabatic Processes 
V Blanchet, M Z Zgierski, T Seideman, Z-C Yan, S Lochbrunner, J J
Larsen, M Schmitt, J P Shaffer and A Stolow, Steacie Institute for
Molecular Sciences, Ottawa, Canada

Time-resolved Studies of Electron Solvation Dynamics in Clusters
D Neumark, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Time-and-Frequency-resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of the Allyl
Radical: C3H5 and C3D5
T Schultz, T Gilbert and I Fischer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Bound and Autoionising Rydberg Electron Wavepacket Dynamics in NO
V G Stavros, R A L Smith, J R R Verlet and H H Fielding, King’s College,
London, UK

Molecular Photoionisation: High Resolution and Time Dependence
Ch Jungen, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

Oriented Molecule Photoelectron Angular Distributions of CF4
P Downie and I Powis, University of Nottingham, UK

Photoelectron-fragment Ion Correlations and Fixed-molecule Angular
Distributions from Velocity Imaging Coincidences
J H D Eland,  M Takahashi and Y Hikosaka, University of Oxford, UK

Dissociation Dynamics Studied Using (1+1) REMPI-PES via a Fast
Predissociative State of Ammonia
Jijun Xu, Guohui Li, Guohe Sha, Bo Jiang, Cunhao Zhang and Jinchun Xie,
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Dalian, China

Pulsed Field Ionization - Photoelectron Photoion Coincidence
Spectroscopy with Synchrotron Radiation: The Heat of Formation of the
C2H5+ Ion
Tomas Baer,  University of North Carolina, Chapel  Hill, USA, Y.Song,
C.Y. Ng, Iowa State University, Ames, USA, Jianbo Liu, Wenwu Chen,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,  Berkeley, USA

Transition State Dynamics of the OH + H2O Hydrogen Exchange Reaction
Studied by Dissociative Photodetachment of H3O2-
H-J Deyerl A K Luong, T G Clements and R E Continetti, University of
California San Diego, La Jolla, USA

Mass Selective Gas Phase Study of ClO, OClO, ClOO and ClAr by
Anion-ZEKE-Photoelectron Spectroscopy
V Distelrath and U Boesl, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

The Stability of High Rydberg States in the Presence of Time-dependent
Inhomogeneous Fields
T P Softley, S R Procter and M J Webb, University of Oxford, UK

PFI-ZEKE Photoelectron Spectra of the Methane Cation and the Dynamic
Jahn-Teller Effect
R Signorell and F Merkt, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Pulsed Field Ionisation – ZEKE Spectroscopy of Cresols and their Aqueous
Complex – Internal Rotation of Methyl Group and Intermolecular Vibrations
M Fujii, Institute of Molecular Sciences,  Okazaki, Japan

Resolved High Rydberg Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules and Van der
Waals Clusters
K Siglow and H J Neusser, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

Stabilization of Molecular Atoms
T. Uzer, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, E  Lee and D
Farrelly, Utah State University, Logan, USA

Threshold Ion-Pair Production Spectroscopy (TIPPS) of H2 and D2
R C Shiell,  X K Hu, Q Hu, and J W Hepburn, University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Canada

Field Induced Ion-pair Formation from ICI Studied by Optical Triple Resonance
S Wang, K P Lawley, T Ridley and R J Donovan, University of Edinburgh, UK

Ion-pair Formation Observed in a Pulsed-field Ionisation Photoelectron
Spectroscopic Study of HF
A J Yencha, State University of New York, Albany, USA, M C A Lopes,
Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil, G C King University of
Manchester, UK, M Hochlaf, Université de Marne-la-Valleée, France, Y
Song and C K Ng, Iowa State University, Ames, USA

Recombination of Simple Molecular Ions Studied in Storage Ring
M Larsson, Stockholm University, Sweden

Resonance-enhanced Multiphoton Ionisation Photoelectron Spectroscopy of
the ClO Radical: the C 2S- state
D H A  ter Steege, M  Smits, C A  de Lange, University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, N P C  Westwood,  University of Guelph, Canada, J B  Peel,
La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia, L Visscher, Vrije
Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Spectroscopy of Excited Electronic States of Carbon Anions above the
Detachment Threshold
F Güthe, M Tulej, M Pachkov and J P Maier, Universität Basel, Switzerland

Spectroscopic Observations of Vibrationally Mediated Slow Electron Capture
M A Johnson and C E H Dessent, Yale University, New Haven, USA and The
University of York, UK

Charge Localization and Charge Delocalization Investigated by
Multiphoton Ionization High-resolution Photoelectron Spectroscopy
R Weinkauf, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany

Concluding Remarks
J Jortner, Tel Aviv University, Israel




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Chair of Physical Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
The University of York
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United Kingdom
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