Re: CLOUD WATCHERS

From: Dave Monroe (monroeds_at_hampton-data.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: 30 Sep 2004 06:09:34 -0700

Sam Wormley <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message news:<oyF6d.282481$Fg5.277550@attbi_s53>...
> Dave Monroe wrote:
> > Sam Wormley <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message news:<4056d.127836$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.
> >
> >
> > Lewis Cocke's optical physics group at Kansas State University in
> > Manhattan . . . ???
>
> Manhattan, KS 66506

Oh ho!