CIEL Moves to Trieste Italy in June 2004

In July 2004, Drs Nick Seccombe and Tim Reddish, collaborating with French and Italian Colleagues, visited the 3^rd generation synchrotron, Elettra, near Trieste (Italy). The momentum imaging system of Michel Lavollee and Alain Huetz (LIXAM, Orsay, France) had just been transported from just south of Paris for the first of a series experiments. Together, with Mathieu Gisselbrecht, Lorenzo Avaldi and Paula Bolognesi, we investiged the double ionisation - and following complete fragmentation - of the H₂ molecule, detecting all four charged particles in coincidence. This elegent three-dimensional imaging technique, builds on earlier work by Weber et al [Nature (2004), 431 437], allows one to obtain a complete kinematical description of this so-called "Coulomb Exposion". Here are a few photos of the French apparatus at Electtra, together with a few hard working scientists!

Craning the French "CIEL" apparatus onto the beam line.	CIEL in place!
Another view of the French ion and electron "momentum imaging" apparatus.	An Italian spagetti of wires from the position sensitive detectors!
Alain Huetz and Dominic Seccombe hard at work!	Michel Lavollee shooting the photographer
Alain Huetz and Lorenzo Avaldi writting the paper!	A cheerful Nick Seccombe: the experiment must have worked!