Experimental Quantum Dynamics Laboratory Australian Research Council Funded

Experimental Quantum Dynamics Laboratory Australian Research Council Funded Discovery Project: “Sub-picosecond studies of matter using intense light from a Free Electron Laser” Academic Staff: Dr Peter Hammond Ph. D. Student: Aaron Alderman Postdoctoral Researcher: Dr Penny Thorn Apparatus UWA Sub-nanosecond pulsed electron source (prototype) Electron/ion low energy storage ring (under design/construction) Delayed Electron Emission Detector (DEED) Windsor, Canada: Electron/ion low energy storage ring (operating prototype) 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

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 Journal Physical 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$989 k Internationally peer-reviewed cases for experimental time at Synchrotron Light Sources worldwide : value approximately A$860 k over 8 years How? New measurement technique ideas (DEED) Invention of unique instruments (RS) – perhaps leading to commercialisation 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 From experiments in June 2008 at Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy: Peter Hammond Centre for Atomic, Molecular and Surface Physics School of Physics

Recycling Spectrometer (RS) - stored low energy electrons Hemisphere entrance apertures Interaction region apertures Hemisphere entrance apertures mm mm mm Peter Hammond Centre for Atomic, Molecular and Surface Physics School of Physics r, θ for trajectory in interaction regions

Opportunities? In all areas of the research into the DEED and the RS i. e. Apparatus design and testing Ultra-fast timing experimental measurements Computational modeling of apparatus (trajectory integration in 3 D) Data analysis & Interpretation of data from the RS prototype in Canada Application of DEED concept to positive ions (mass spectroscopy) For further information contact me! Peter Hammond Centre for Atomic, Molecular and Surface Physics School of Physics