Velocity map imaging with non-uniform detection: quantitative molecular axis alignment measurements via Coulomb explosion imaging
arXiv:1502.04007 · doi:10.1063/1.4922137
Abstract
We present a method for inverting charged particle velocity map images which incoorporates a non-uniform detection function. This method is applied to the specific case of extracting molecular axis alignment from Coulomb explosion imaging probes in which the probe itself has a dependence on molecular orientation which often removes cylindrical symmetry from the experiment and prevents the use of standard inversion techniques for the recovery of the molecular axis distribution. By incorporating the known detection function, it is possible to remove the angular bias of the Coulomb explosion probe process and invert the image to allow quantitative measurement of the degree of molecular axis alignment.
14 pages, 12 figures
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