Peter Hammond Centre for Atomic, Molecular and Surface Physics School of Physics

Experimental Quantum Dynamics LaboratoryAustralian Research Council Funded Discovery Project:

“Sub-picosecond studies of matter using intense light from a Free Electron Laser”

Academic Staff: Dr Peter HammondPh.D. Student: Aaron Alderman

Postdoctoral Researcher: Dr Penny Thorn

Windsor, Canada: Electron/ion low energy storage ring (operating prototype)

Apparatus

UWA Sub-nanosecond pulsed electron source (prototype)

Electron/ion low energy storage ring (under design/construction)

Trieste, Italy: Elettra Synchrotron Light Source (operating ~ A$300 million)

FERMI Free Electron Laser (under construction ~ A$110 million)

Delayed Electron Emission Detector (DEED)

Peter Hammond Centre for Atomic, Molecular and Surface Physics School of Physics

Trieste, Italy: Elettra Synchrotron Light Source (operating ~ A$300 million)

FERMI Free Electron Laser (under construction ~ A$110 million)

Peter Hammond Centre for Atomic, Molecular and Surface Physics School of Physics

International standing of Research Group?6 papers in Physical Review Letters in the past 9 years.

Mission of the JournalPhysical Review Letters, published by the American Physical Society, is charged with providing rapid publication of short reports of important fundamental research in all fields of physics. The journal should provide its diverse readership with coverage of major advances in all aspects of physics and of developments with significant consequences across subdisciplines. Letters should therefore be of broad interest.

Australian Research Council Funding: 2002, 2004-2006, 2008-2010 Total A$989k

Internationally peer-reviewed cases for experimental time at Synchrotron Light Sources worldwide : value approximately A$860k over 8 years

How?

New measurement technique ideas (DEED)

Invention of unique instruments (RS)

– perhaps leading to commercialisation

From experiments in June 2008 at Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy:

Peter Hammond Centre for Atomic, Molecular and Surface Physics School of Physics

Delayed Electron Emission Detector (DEED)

A new technique which allows ultra-fast timing of low energy electrons with ~10 picosecond precision

Peter Hammond Centre for Atomic, Molecular and Surface Physics School of Physics

Recycling Spectrometer (RS) - stored low energy electrons

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Interaction region

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r, θ for trajectory in interaction

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Peter Hammond Centre for Atomic, Molecular and Surface Physics School of Physics

Opportunities?

In all areas of the research into the DEED and the RS i.e.

Ultra-fast timing experimental measurements

Apparatus design and testing

Computational modeling of apparatus (trajectory integration in 3D)

Data analysis & Interpretation of data from the RS prototype in Canada

Application of DEED concept to positive ions (mass spectroscopy)

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