Research opportunities at the advanced light source

The Advanced Light Source (ALS), now under construction at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, is a third-generation synchrotron radiation facility based on a low-emittance, 1.5-GeV electron storage ring with 10 long straight sections available for insertion devices and, initially, 24 bend-magnet ports. Undulators will provide high-brightness radiation at photon energies from below 10 eV to above 2 keV; wiggler and bend-magnet radiation will extend the spectral coverage with high fluxes to above 10 keV. Scheduled to begin operations as a US Department of Energy national user facility in the spring of 1993, the ALS will support an extensive research program in which soft x-ray and ultraviolet radiation is used to study matter in all its varied gaseous, liquid, and solid forms. Participating research teams to implement the initial scientific program have been selected. 13 refs., 3 figs., 2 tabs

Irradiation of benzene molecules by ion-induced and light-induced intense fields

Benzene, with its sea of delocalized $\pi$-electrons in the valence orbitals, is identified as an example of a class of molecules that enable establishment of the correspondence between intense ion-induced and laser-light-induced fields in experiments that probe ionization dynamics in temporal regimes spanning the attosecond and picosecond ranges.Comment: 4 ps figure

PRODUCTION AND DESTRUCTION OF D- BY CHARGE TRANSFER IN METAL VAPORS

Experimental studies of D/sup -/ collisions are of interest for basic physics, where experimental results can be used to test theoretical models for charge transfer, and for applications to ion sources for accelerators and for heating magnetically confined plasmas of interest for fusion. The high D/sup -/ yield from charge transfer in a thick cesium-vapor target is consistent with recent cross-section calculations and measurements. Recent theoretical calculations of cross sections in thick alkaline-earth-vapor targets, leading to prediction of a large D/sup -/ yield at low energy, have been partially confirmed in recent measurements, in which a D/sup -/ yield of 50% was observed at a D energy of 500 eV

Multiple electron capture in close ion-atom collisions

Multiple electron capture is reported for Ca/sup 17 +/ in Ar. Close collisions are defined by the observation of a coincident Ca K or Ar K x-ray. A large number of electrons is transferred to the projectile in a single close collision when the Ca ion projectile is of the order of the Ar L-shell electron velocity. The cross section for electron capture is reported

CHARGE-TRANSFER COLLISIONS FOR POLARIZED ION SOURCES

Charge-transfer processes relevant to polarized ion sources are discussed and results are summarized. The primary atom discussed is hydrogen, with particulr emphasis on H/sup -/ formation. Heavier negative ions are briefly discussed