Re: CLOUD WATCHERS

From: Sam Wormley (swormley1_at_mchsi.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:11:49 GMT

Dave Monroe wrote:
> Sam Wormley <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message news:<4056d.127836$D%.5760@attbi_s51>...
>
>>PHYSICAL REVIEW FOCUS 27 September 2004 http://focus.aps.org/
>>David Ehrenstein and Chelsea Wald, American Physical Society
>>
>>Introductions to the Focus stories of the past week;
>>visit http://focus.aps.org for the complete stories.
>>
>>CLOUD WATCHERS
>>Researchers have demonstrated a new method of observing the
>>electron "clouds" surrounding simple molecules. Using laser pulses,
>>they split molecules of oxygen and nitrogen into pairs of ions,
>>then reconstructed the shapes of the molecules' original electron
>>clouds, or "orbitals," based on the ions' paths. The results,
>>published in the 10 September PRL, confirm the theoretical
>>prediction that the likelihood of a molecule breaking up in an
>>electric field depends on the shapes of its orbitals. The technique
>>may help researchers probe reactions that occur in laser fusion
>>systems, in the sun's corona, and between biological molecules.
>>(A. S. Alnaser et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 113003)
>>Link to the paper: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v93/e113003
>>COMPLETE Focus story at http://focus.aps.org/story/v14/st12
>>
>>Also from PRL (story from AIP's Physics News Update):
>>
>>THE QUARK-MESON COUPLING MODEL
>>Story at http://www.aip.org/pnu/2004/split/699-1.html
>>(P. A. M. Guichon and A. W. Thomas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 132502)
>>
>>---
>>Copyright 2004, The American Physical Society.
>
>
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