Studying Photodissociation of Molecules by Velocity Map Imaging of Ions via Electrostatic Lenses

Ion imaging methods raise great interest since they allow obtaining information about the molecular dynamics of molecular reactions and dissociation processes while imaging the resulting products or photoelectrons In particular the velocity map imaging VMI is a high resolution spectroscopic method that allows measurement of three dimensional velocity distributions and recoil directions of the products of a molecule The method is based on the application of electr