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Timur Osipov's thesis work on the the transformation of acetylene to its isomer vinylidene is featured in the August Physics Today. It's on page 19 of the print edition.

The original paper is in Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 233002 (2003).

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The collaborative effort to study photoionization (as featured below) continues to grow. New results exploit the diffraction of photoelectrons to "illuminate molecules from within".

More details on earlier work are also available.

The first experiments using Magneto Optically Trapped-target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy (MOTRIMS) at KSU have been completed. The cold, localized target created with a Magneto-Optical Trap is ideal for making measurements using recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy, and the very low temperature of the trapped atoms significantly improves the resolution achievable.

This new technique has been used to perform kinematically complete experiments for charge transfer processes study in Cs⁺ + Rb(5s), Rb(5p) low energy collisions.

New insights continue to emerge from our ongoing collaboration at Lawrence-Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source, or ALS. Physicists from Kansas State, the University of Frankfurt, Western Michigan University and other institutions are working together to explore the dynamics of photoionization. The latest results are now available as a pair of video clips showing the evolution of an electron cloud undergoing photoionization.

New results are featured above while details on earlier work remain available.