Syllabus
* Special experimental methods of molecular physics *
1. Molecular beams Effusive beams: fundamentals of gas kinetic theory, molecular flow through apertures and channels. Free jet expansions: fundamentals of gas dynamics, supersonic jets, beam characteristics, internal energy relaxation - cooling, condensation and clustering. Ion beams. Diagnostic methods, estimations of velocity and temperature in beams. Examples of modern beam experiments. *
2. Molecular spectroscopy - Raman spectroscopy Fundamentals of molecular structure and dynamics. Fundamentals of spectroscopies: vibrational, rotational, electronic. Theory of Raman scattering, rotational and vibrational Raman spectroscopy. Estimations of temperature of neutral and ionized particles in plasmas and molecular beams. *
3. Ion and electron imaging Fundamentals of imaging experiments. Time-of-flight methods, ion imaging, velocity mapping and slicing methods. Data processing methods. Abel transformation. Examples of imaging experiments. *
4. Photodissociation experiments Fundamentals of photodissociation dynamics, light absorption and photodiscociation. Time-of-flight and imaging methods in photodissociation experiments. Photodissociation in clusters. Typical photodissociation experiments.
Annotation
Survey of modern methods of molecular physics.
The course is assigned to postgraduate students and it is held as one-week intensive lectures in academic years
"odd/even," only.