Prof. Paul Corkum, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, Collision Physics - Is It Feasible to Systematically Measure Collision Dynamics?

Schedule Aug 09, 2006 Collision Physics - Is It Feasible to Systematically Measure Collision Dynamics? Prof. Paul Corkum, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences

Collision physics, through scattering techniques, is really good at measuring the structure of matter. It is hard to imagine a competing technology.

But collision physics has no systematic method for measuring dynamics.

By combining collision physics with laser science, attosecond technology provides collision physics with a systematic method to make dynamics measurements with attosecond resolution.

Although we are at the very beginning, I will propose that we can adapt gating technology, widely used in optics, to the point where all collision dynamics that can be excited by re-collision (this includes nuclear dynamics) will become systematically measurable.