Research project: Dyke: Photoionisation Studies of Reactive Intermediates with Synchrotron Radiation
The main objective of this project is to study the photoionisation behaviour of reactive intermediates with photoelectron spectroscopy at Elettra , a third generation synchrotron, in Trieste, Italy.Photoionization processes of reactive intermediates are of fundamental importance, and find application in a large number of scientific areas, including astrophysics, planetary science, the chemistry of the earth’s atmosphere, radiation chemistry, physics and biology. Researchers in these fields require ionisation energies and information on electronic excited neutral states and low-lying ionic states, as well as measures of intensities ( relative and absolute cross-sections) for photoabsorption and photoionization over a wide spectral range.