Many-particle fragmentation processes in atomic and molecular physics - New insight into the world of correlation

H. Schmidt-Böcking*, M. S. Schöffler, T. Jahnke, A. Czasch, V. Mergel, L. Schmidt, R. Dörner, O. Jagutzki, M. Hattass, Th Weber, E. Weigold, H. T. Schmidt, R. Schuch, H. Cederquist, Y. Demkov, C. Whelan, A. Godunov, J. Walters

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    Abstract

    Correlated many-particle dynamics in Coulombic systems, which is one of the unsolved fundamental problems in AMO-physics, can now be experimentally approached with so far unprecedented completeness and precision. The recent development of the COLTRIMS technique (COLd Target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy) provides a coincident multi-fragment imaging technique for eV and sub-eV fragment detection. In its completeness it is as powerful as the bubble chamber in high energy physics. In recent benchmark experiments quasi snapshots (duration as short as an attosecond) of the correlated dynamics between electrons and nuclei have been made for atomic and molecular objects. This new imaging technique has opened a powerful observation window into the hidden world of many-particle dynamics.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)3-11
    Number of pages9
    JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
    Volume233
    Issue number1-4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - May 2005
    EventFast Ion-Atom Collisions Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on Fast Ion-Atom Collisions -
    Duration: 1 Sept 20043 Sept 2004

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