title: Spin-polarized hydrogen atoms from molecular photodissociation.
abstract: The production of spin-polarized hydrogen atoms from the photodissociation of hydrogen chloride with circularly polarized 193-nanometer light is inferred from the measurement of the complete angular momentum distributions of ground state Cl(2P3/2)and excited state Cl(2P1/2)cofragments by slice imaging. The experimentally measured and ab initio predicted a q(k) (p)parameters, which describe the single-surface and multiple-surface-interference contributions to the angular momentum distributions, are in excellent agreement. For laser pulses longer than about 0.7 ns, the polarization of the electron and the proton are both 36%.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion-Crete, Greece. ptr@iesl.forth.gr
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Rakitzis
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Samartzis
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Toomes
authors.forename: T N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Kitsopoulos
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Balint-Kurti
authors.forename: O S
authors.initials: OS
authors.lastname: Vasyutinskii
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Beswick