Our research is concerned with experimental characterization of reactive and inelastic collisions by molecular beam techniques that allow products of a single collision to be detected. Product energy and angular distributions can provide information about intermolecular forces, as well as test dynamical theories. Further information can be obtained by measuring cross sections for a specific electronic state as functions of collision energy. Methods are being developed for creating beams with a wide range of internal and translational energy distributions. Product detection is by fluorescence of electronically excited species or laser induced fluorescence of ground state products.
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