WH. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: COLD MOLECULES/CLUSTERS

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2008 - 1:30pm

Room: 1000 MCPHERSON LAB

Chair: ROBERT LE ROY, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

WH01 INVITED TALK 30min1:30

SPECTROSCOPY OF LARGE, COLD MOLECULAR CLUSTERS.

ANDREY F. VILESOV, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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WH02			15min2:05

ROTATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY OF SINGLE CARBONYL SULFIDE MOLECULES EMBEDDED IN SUPERFLUID HELIUM NANODROPLETS.

PAUL L. RASTON, RUDOLF LEHNIG AND WOLFGANG JÄGER, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G-2G2, Canada.

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WH03			15min2:22

QUANTUM MONTH CARLO PREDICTION OF VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCY SHIFTS OF ( He)_N-CO₂ CLUSTERS.

HUI LI AND ROBERT J. LE ROY, Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada; NICHOLAS BLINOV AND PIERRE-NICHOLAS ROY, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G2, Canada.

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WH04			15min2:39

INFRARED SPECTRA OF HYDROGEN CLUSTERS SEEDED WITH CARBON DIOXIDE.

A. R. W. MCKELLAR, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada.

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WH05			15min2:56

CRYSTAL FIELD INTERACTIONS OF ``LARGE" ROTORS EMBEDDED IN SOLID PARAHYDROGEN.

C. MICHAEL LINDSAY AND MARIO E. FAJARDO, AFRL/MNME, Energetic Materials Branch, Ordnance Division, U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory, 2306 Perimeter Rd., Eglin AFB, FL 32542-5910.

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WH06			15min3:13

LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE OF TETRACENE IN HYDROGEN DROPLETS.

SUSUMU KUMA, HIROKO NAKAHARA AND TAKAMASA MOMOSE, Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., V6T1Z1, Canada.

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WH07			15min3:30

RYDBERG STATES OF Na-DOPED HELIUM NANODROPLETS .

MARCEL DRABBELS, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland .

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INTERMISSION

WH08			15min4:00

NONPLANARITY OF NUCLEIC ACID BASES IN HELIUM NANODROPLETS: A VIBRATIONAL TRANSITION MOMENT ANGLE STUDY.

MYONG YONG CHOI, YOUNGMOON KIM AND SEUNG JUN LEE, Department of Chemistry and Research Institute of Natural Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 660-701, Korea; ROGER E. MILLER, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.

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WH09			15min4:17

PROGRESS IN OPTICALLY-DETECTED SPIN-RESONANCE ON HELIUM DROPLETS.

MARKUS KOCH, GERALD AUBÖCK, JOHANN NAGL, CARLO CALLEGARI AND WOLFGANG E. ERNST, Institute of Experimental Physics, TU Graz, Petersgasse 16, 8010 Graz, Austria/EU.

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WH10			15min4:34

MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM STUDY OF SPIN-ORBIT SPLITTING IN ALKALI DIMERS IN THE PRESENCE OF A HELIUM SURFACE.

GERALD AUBÖCK, JOHANN NAGL, CARLO CALLEGARI AND WOLFGANG E. ERNST, Institute of Experimental Physics, TU Graz, Petersgasse 16, 8010 Graz, Austria/EU.

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WH11			15min4:51

WIDE-RANGE VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY OF HIGH-SPIN ALKALI TRIMERS ON HELIUM DROPLETS, AND INTERPRETATION OF THEIR ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE.

JOHANN NAGL, ANDREAS W. HAUSER, GERALD AUBÖCK, OLIVIER ALLARD, CARLO CALLEGARI AND WOLFGANG E. ERNST, Institute of Experimental Physics, TU Graz, Petersgasse 16, 8010 Graz, Austria/EU.

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WH12			15min5:08

E øtimes \lowercasee VIBRONIC COUPLING IN QUARTET STATES OF R\lowercaseb₃ AND K₃ ON HELIUM DROPLETS.

GERALD AUBÖCK, JOHANN NAGL, CARLO CALLEGARI AND WOLFGANG E. ERNST, Institute of Experimental Physics, TU Graz, Petersgasse 16, 8010 Graz, Austria/EU.

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WH13			15min5:25

INFRARED STUDY OF HCL CLUSTERS IN HELIUM DROPLETS.

DMITRY S. SKVORTSOV, RUSSELL SLITER, Chemistry Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089; MYONG YONG CHOI, Department of Chemistry and Research Institute of Natural Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-710, Democratic People's Republic of Korea; AND ANDREY F. VILESOV, Chemistry Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089.

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