Publications by Augustana College Physics Faculty:

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• E. Wells, T. Nishide, H. Tawara, R.L. Watson, K.D. Carnes, and I. Ben-Itzhak, “ Soft fragmentation of carbon monoxide by slow highly charged ions ”, submitted to Phys. Rev. A (2007).
• A.S. Alnaser, I. Litvinyuk, T. Osipov, B. Ulrich, A. Landers, E. Wells, C.M. Maharjan, P. Ranitovic, I. Bochareva, D. Ray, and C.L. Cocke, "Momentum-imaging investigations of the dissociation of D2+ and the isomerization of acetylene to vinylidene by intense short laser pulses", J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 39, S485 (2006).
• Nora G. Johnson, R.N. Mello, Michael E. Lundy, J. Kapplinger, Eli Parke, K.D. Carnes, I. Ben-Itzhak, and E. Wells, "Single Ionization of Hydrogen Molecules by Fast Protons as a Function of the Molecular Alignment", Phys. Rev. A 72, 052711 (2005).
• E. Wells, K.J. Betsch, C.W.S. Conover, D. Pinkham, M.J. DeWitt, and R.R. Jones, "Closed-Loop Control of Intense-Laser Fragmentation of S₈", Phys. Rev. A 72, 063046 (2005).
• E. Wells, Vidhya Krishnamurthi, K.D. Carnes, Nora G. Johnson, Heather D. Baxter, David Moore, Kristana M. Bloom, B.M. Barnes, H. Tawara and I. Ben-Itzhak, "Proton-Carbon Monoxide Collisions From 10 keV to 14 MeV", Phys. Rev. A 72, 022726 (2005).
• E. Wells, K.D. Carnes, H. Tawara, R. Ali, Emil Y. Sidky, Clara Illescas, and I. Ben-Itzhak, "One- and Two- Electron Processes in Collisions Between Hydrogen Molecules and Slow Highly Charged Ions", Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. B 241, 105 (2005).
• I. Ben-Itzhak, A. Max Sayler, M. Leonard, J.W. Maseberg, D. Hathiramani, E. Wells, M.A. Smith, Jiangfan Xia, Pengqian Wang, K.D. Carnes, and B.D. Esry, "Bond rearrangement caused by sudden single and multiple ionization of water molecules", Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. B 233, 284 (2005).
• T. Osipov, A.S. Alnaser, S. Voss , M.H. Prior, T. Weber, O. Jagutzki, L. Schmidt, H. Schmidt-Böcking, R. Dörner, A. L. Landers, E. Wells, B. Shan, C. Maharjan, B. Ullrich, P. Ranitovic, X.M. Tong, C.D. Lin and C.L. Cocke, "Photon-Ion Collisions and Molecular Clocks", J. Modern Optics, 52, 439 (2005).
• A.L. Landers, E. Wells, T. Osipov, K.D. Carnes, A.S. Alnaser, J.A. Tanis, J.H. McGuire, I. Ben-Itzhak, and C.L. Cocke, "Interference Effects in Double Ionization of Spatially Aligned Hydrogen Molecules by Fast Highly Charged Ions", Phys. Rev. A 70, 042702 (2004).
• E. Wells, I. Ben-Itzhak and R.R. Jones, "Ionization of Atoms by the Spatial Gradient of the Pondermotive Potential in an Intense Focused Laser Beam", Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 023001 (2004).
• E. Wells, K.D. Carnes, and I. Ben-Itzhak, "Probing very slow H⁺ + D(1s) collisions using the ground state dissociation of HD⁺", Phys. Rev. A 67, 032708 (2003).
• E. Wells, M.J. DeWitt, and R.R. Jones, "Comparison of intense field ionization of diatomic molecules and rare gas atoms", Phys. Rev. A 66, 013409 (2002).
• M.J. DeWitt, E. Wells, and R.R. Jones, "Ratiometric comparison of intense field ionization of atoms and diatomic molecules", Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 , 153001 (2001).
• X. Flechard, H. Nguyen, E. Wells, I. Ben-Itzhak, and B.D. DePaola, "A kinematically complete charge exchange experiment in the Cs + + Rb collision system using a MOT target", Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 , 123203 (2001).
• E. Wells, K.D. Carnes, B.D. Esry and I. Ben-Itzhak, "Charge transfer and elastic scattering in very slow H⁺ + D(1s) collisions", Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 , 4803 (2001).
• I. Ben-Itzhak, E. Wells, D. Studanski, Vidhya Krishnamurthi, K.D. Carnes, and H. Knudsen, "Double and single ionization of hydrogen molecules by fast proton impact", J. Phys. B 34 , 1143 (2001).
• A.M. Sayler, E. Wells, K.D. Carnes, and I. Ben-Itzhak, "Velocity Dependence of electron removal and fragmentation of water molecules by fast proton impact", in Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry , edited by J.L. Duggan and I.L. Morgan (AIP Press, New York 2001) pp. 33-36.
• I. Ben-Itzhak, E. Wells, K.D. Carnes, Vidhya Krishnamurthi, O.L. Weaver, and B.D. Esry, "Symmetry breakdown in ground state dissociation of HD⁺", Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 , 58 (2000).
• E. Wells, B.D. Esry, K.D. Carnes, and I. Ben-Itzhak, "Asymmetric branching ratio for the dissociation of HD⁺(1ss)", Phys. Rev. A. 62 , 062707 (2000).
• B.D. Esry, H.R. Sadeghpour, E. Wells, and I. Ben-Itzhak, "Charge exchange in slow H⁺ + D(1s) collisions", J. Phys. B 33 , 5329 (2000).
• E. Wells, I. Ben-Itzhak, K.D. Carnes, and Vidhya Krishnamurthi , "Effect of the projectile charge on the ionization and excitation of hydrogen molecules by fast ion impact", Phys. Rev. A. 60 , 3734 (1999).
• I. Ben-Itzhak, E. Wells, K.D. Carnes, and B.D. Esry , "Charge exchange at very low collision energies", in Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry , edited by J.L. Duggan and I.L. Morgan (AIP Press, New York 1999) pp. 62-66.
• I. Ben-Itzhak, E. Wells, Vidhya Krishnamurthi, K.D. Carnes, H. Aliabadi, U. Mikkelsen, O.L. Weaver, and B.D. Esry, " An experimental method for evaluating the H₂ and D₂ contamination levels in a HD bottle", Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. B 129 , 117 (1997).
• E. Wells, I. Ben-Itzhak, K.D. Carnes, and Vidhya Krishnamurthi , " Charge dependence of one and two electron processes in collisions between hydrogen molecules and fast projectiles", in Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry , edited by J.L. Duggan and I.L. Morgan (AIP Press, New York 1997) pp. 193-197.
• E. Wells, D. Studanski, I. Ben-Itzhak, and K.D. Carnes, " Comparison of single-ionization of hydrogen molecules to that of helium in collisions with fast protons", in Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry , edited by J.L. Duggan and I.L. Morgan (AIP Press, New York 1997) pp. 204-207.
• I. Ben-Itzhak, E. Wells, K.D. Carnes, and Vidhya Krishnamurthi , "Highly charged ion-molecule collisions", Physica Scripta T73 , 259 (1997).
• I. Ben-Itzhak, E. Wells, M.P. Stöckli, H. Tawara, and K.D. Carnes, " Electron capture and fragmentation in Ar¹¹⁺ + CO collisions", Physica Scripta T73 , 270 (1997).

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