Lamm, Ben

Perera, Faculty Advisor, Manori

Roenitz, Kevin

Rudd, Lydia

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Illinois Wesleyan UniversityDigital Commons @ IWUJohn Wesley Powell Student ResearchConference 2016, 27th Annual JWP ConferenceApr 16th, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMInstrumentation for Determining Prebiotic Speciesin the Interstellar MediumLydia RuddIllinois Wesleyan UniversityBen LammIllinois Wesleyan UniversityKevin RoenitzIllinois Wesleyan UniversityManori Perera, Faculty AdvisorIllinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprcPart of the Chemistry Commons, and the Education CommonsThis Event is brought to you for free and open access by The Ames Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Center for Curricular and FacultyDevelopment, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Commons @ IWU bythe faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@iwu.edu.©Copyright is owned by the author of this document.Lydia Rudd; Ben Lamm; Kevin Roenitz; and Manori Perera, Faculty Advisor, "Instrumentation for Determining PrebioticSpecies in the Interstellar Medium" (April 16, 2016). John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference. Paper 2.http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2016/oralpres6/2THE JOHN WESLEY POWELL STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE – APRIL 2016      Oral Presentation  O6.2   INSTRUMENTATION FOR DETERMINING PREBIOTIC SPECIES  IN THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM   Lydia Rudd, Ben Lamm, Kevin Roenitz and Manori Perera* Chemistry Department, Illinois Wesleyan University    We are building an instrument to study the gas phase reaction dynamics of astronomically relevant molecular species, specifically the reactions of ions with neutral molecules.   With this instrument, we plan to study the branching ratios of product channels under a variety of temperatures, pressures, and external photon energies that adequately simulate the conditions of the interstellar medium (ISM).   The data will allow us to (1) identify new species that are stable under ISM conditions and (2) understand the reaction dynamics of ion-neutral reactions since these are known to drive the chemistry of the ISM.  The particular ions – such as HCN+, HCO+ and C3 H 3+ –that we propose to study are important for prebiotic and carbon chemistry in space. The instrument consists of 3 stages: (1) a dual channel ion source (2) a liquid nitrogen cooled ion trap with optional laser and (3) a time-of-flight mass spectrometer. The progress of the instrument will be presented.                

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