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Photoionization spectroscopy I
- Richard Tuckett (University of Birmingham, UK)
Few-electron molecules represent attractive systems for precision spectroscopy because their properties can be calculated with extraordinary accuracy by ab initio quantum-chemical methods. [1,2] Comparing experimental and theoretical results thus offers the opportunity to assess the limitations of ab initio calculations, ultimately and ideally at the level where their accuracy is limited by...
DNA/RNA bases and amino acids are building blocks of life. The spectroscopy and stability of their ionic forms are relevant to their survival rate under interstellar conditions, and to the field of radiation damage, where ionizing radiation can lead to DNA/RNA strand breaking and production of hazardous by-products through processes involving nucleobases.
Several experimental works at BESSY...
