Atomic and Molecular Physics Laboratory

The AMO Physics Laboratory houses instruments for studying the interaction of atoms and molecules with ionizing radiation. In particular, Cold Target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy is used to simultaneously measure the momenta of multiple particles produced in collisions of ion, electrons and photons with atoms and molecules. Multihit detectors with sub-nanosecond time resolution and sub-millimeter spatial resolution are used to image the momentum space continuum probability distributions resulting from these fundamental processes.