Low temperatures and cold molecules / editor: Ian W.M. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Ian W. M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Molecules.

Low temperatures.

Interstellar molecules.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (580 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Imperial College Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

New, unexpected and largely unexplored physical phenomena occur in systems cooled to very low temperatures. The background temperature in the universe is approximately 2.7 K, but much lower temperatures have now been obtained in the laboratory. This book reviews the progress in a number of related fields in which the common themes are low temperatures and molecules, not atoms.This book brings together, for the first time, the results of recent research in areas ranging from the chemistry of cold interstellar clouds (10-20 K), through laboratory studies of the spectroscopy and kinetics of ions,

Contents:

1. The chemistry of cold interstellar cloud cores / Eric Herbst and Tom J. Millar

2. Gas phase reactive collisions at very low temperature: recent experimental advances and perspectives / Andr�e Canosa ... [et al.]

3. The study of cold collisions using ion guides and traps / D. Gerlich

4. Theory of low temperature gas-phase reactions / Stephen J. Klippenstein and Yuri Georgievskii

5. Molecular spectroscopy at low temperatures: a high resolution infrared retrospective / Scott Davis, Feng Dong and David J. Nesbitt

6. The production and study of ultra-cold molecular ions / D. Gerlich

7. Chemical dynamics inside superfluid helium nanodroplets at 0.37K / Alkwin Slenczka and J. Peter Toennies

8. Kinematic cooling of molecules / Kevin E. Strecker and David W. Chandler

9. Manipulation of molecules with electric fields / Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker, Hendrick L. Bethlem and Gerard Meijer

10. Cold collisions, quantum degenerate gases, photoassociation, and cold molecules / John Weiner.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781848162105

1848162103