Atomic and Molecular Beams

Introductory Perspectives.- Atomic and Molecular Beams in Chemical Physics: A Continuing Odyssey.- I Laser Cooling and Manipulation of Atoms and Molecules - Atomic and Molecular Optics and Applications.- 1. Foreword: Laser Cooling and Trapping of Neutral Atoms.- 2. Optics and Interferometry with Atoms and Molecules.- 3. Some New Effects in Atom Stern-Gerlach Interferometry.- 4. Atom Optics and Atom Polarization Interferometry Using Pulsed Magnetic Fields.- 5. Making Molecules at MicroKelvin.- 6. Molecular Photoassociation and Ultracold Molecules.- 7. Molecular Optics in Intense Fields: From Lenses to Mirrors.- 8. Ultrashort Wavepacket Dynamics and Interferences in Alkali Atoms.- 9. Atomic Beam Spin Echo. Principle and Surface Science Application.- 10. Sufficient Conditions for Quantum Reflection with Real Gas-Surface Interaction Potentials.- 11. Focusing Helium Atom Beams Using Single Crystal Surfaces.- 12. Atom Lithography with Cesium Atomic Beams.- II Translational and Internal Energy Relaxation in Supersonic Free Jets, Including Possible Alignment and Condensation Phenomena.- 1. The Physics of Plasma Expansion.- 2. Laser Sustained Plasma Free Jet and Energetic Atom Beam of Pure Argon or Oxygen Seeded Argon Mixture.- 3. Doppler Profiles of the Distribution of O(1D) Relaxing in Ne.- 4. Natural Alignment and Cooling in Seeded Supersonic Free Jets: Experiments and a Quantum Mechanical View.- 5. Nonequilibrium Distributions of Rotational Energies of K2Seeded in a Free-Jet of Argon.- 6. Rotational and Vibrational Relaxation of Hydrides in Free Jets: HBr and OH.- 7. Raman Studies of Free Jet Expansion (Diagnostics and Mapping).- 8. Mixed Clusters Produced in Argon-Nitrogen Coexpansions as Evidenced by Two Experimental methods.- III Photodissociation Dynamics and Electronic Spectroscopy in Molecular Beams: From Simple Molecules to Clusters and Ions.- 1. Imaging of State-to-State Photodynamics of Nitrous Oxide in the 205 nm Region of the Stratospheric Solar Window.- 2. The Photodissociation Dynamics of Tropospheric Ozone.- 3. Photodissociation of NO2 near 225nm by Velocity Map Imaging.- 4. The (Ba-FCH3)* Photofragmentation Channels: Dynamics of the Laser Induced Intracluster (Ba - - - FCH3)* ? BaF* + CH3and Ba* + FCH3Reaction.- 5. Electronic Spectroscopy and Excited State Dynamics of Aluminum Atom-Molecule Complexes.- 6. Electronic Spectra of Cold Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) Cations in a Molecular Beam.- 7. Structure and Dynamics of van der Waals Complexes by High Resolution Spectroscopy.- 8. Femtosecond Pump-Probe Experiments with a High Repetition Rate Molecular Beam.- IV Dynamics of Elementary Molecular Collisions and Femtochemistry: Theory, Real-Time Probing, and Imaging of Crossed-Beam Reactions.- 1. Femtochemistry: Recent Progress in Studies of Dynamics and Control of Reactions and Their Transition States.- 2. Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Collisional Induced Recombination: A Simple Theoretical Approach.- 3. Direct Observation of Collisions by Laser Excitation of the Collision Pair.- 4. Counterpropagating Pulsed Molecular Beam Scattering.- 5. Ion Imaging Studies of Chemical Dynamics.- 6. Orientation of Parity-Selected NO and Its Steric Asymmetry in Rotational Energy Transfer Collisions.- 7. Collisional Energy Dependence of Insertion Dynamics: State-Resolved Angular Distributions for S(1D) + D2 ? SD + D.- 8. High Resolution Translational Spectroscopic Studies of Elementary Chemical Processes.- 9. Reaction Kinetics in Uniform Supersonic Flows at Very Low Temperatures.- 10. Ion-Neutral Collisions in Beam Experiments. Production of ArNn+(n = 1, 2) in the Reaction of Arn+with N2.- 11. Crossed Beams and Theoretical Study of the (NaRb)+Collisional System.- V Clusters and Nanoparticles: Diffraction, Size Selection, Polarizability, and Fragmentation by Photodissociation, Electron Impact, and Atom Collision.- 1. Diffraction of Cluster Beams from Nanoscale Transmission Gratings.- 2. Electron Impact Fragmentation of Size Selected Arn(n= 4 to 9) Clusters.- 3. Static Dipole Polarizability of Free Alkali Clusters.- 4. Photodissociation of Water Clusters.- 5. Collision Induced Fragmentation of Molecules and Small Na+nClusters: Competition Between Impulsive and Electronic Mechanisms.- 6. Charge Exchange in Atom-Cluster Collisions.- 7. Electron Attachment to Oxygen and Nitric Oxide Clusters.- 8. The Radiative Cooling of C60and C+60in a Beam.- 9. Internal Energy Distributions in Cluster Ions.- 10. Molecular Beams of Silicon Clusters and Nanoparticles Produced by Laser Pyrolysis of Gas Phase Reactants.- VI Spectroscopy and Reaction Dynamics of Molecules Isolated, Cooled (or Conditioned), by Techniques of Molecule, Cluster, Droplets, or Liquid Beams.- 1. Spectroscopy in, on, and off a Beam of Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets.- 2. Spectroscopy of Single Molecules and Clusters Inside Superfluid Helium Droplets.- 3. The Spectroscopy of Molecules and Unique Clusters in Superfluid Helium Droplets.- 4. Electronic Structure and Dynamics of Solute Molecules on Solution Surfaces by Use of Liquid Beam Multiphoton Ionization Mass Spectrometry.- 5. Shedding Light on Heavy Molecules, One by One.- 6. Molecular Beam Studies of DNA Bases.- 7. Reaction Between Barium and N2O on Large Neon Clusters.- 8. Capture and Coagulation of CO Molecules to Small Clusters in Large Supercooled H2Droplets.- VII Interactions of Molecular Beams and Cluster Beams with Surfaces, and Applications.- 1. Essentials of Cluster Impact Chemistry.- 2. Probing the Dynamics of Chemisorption Through Scattering and Sticking.- 3. Product State Measurements of Nitrogen Formation at Surfaces.- 4. Enrichment of Binary van der Waals Clusters Surviving Surface Collision.- 5. Collision Dynamics of Water Clusters on a Solid Surface: Molecular Dynamics and Molecular Beam Studies.- 6. Hyperthermal Fullerene-Surface Collisions: Energy Transfer and Charge Exchange.- 7. Electron Emission Induced by Cluster-Surface Collisions: a Fingerprint of the Neutralization Dynamics?.- 8. Supersonic Beam Epitaxy of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors.- 9. Chemical Maps and SEM Images of the Reaction Products on Si Surfaces Irradiated with Cold and Hot C2H4Beams.- Looking Ahead.- Macro, Micro and Nanobeams.- Author Index.