Itzhak Ben-Itzhak

Itzik Ben-Itzhak

Itzik Ben-Itzhak
Professor
Address:	106A Cardwell Hall
Phone:	(785) 532-1636
E-mail:	ibi@phys.ksu.edu
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Ph.D. The Technion, Haifa, Israel 1986

Research Area

Experimental Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics

We are investigating the interaction of intense ultrashort laser pulses with a few keV molecular-ion beams using coincidence 3D-imaging techniques. These kinematically complete measurements provide detailed information on the dissociation and ionization processes of interest, and their dependence on the laser pulse parameters. We are also studying the dynamics of molecular processes induced by a collision between the projectile molecular ion and a target atom employing similar particle imaging methods. In the past we have studied the decay rate of metastable exotic molecular ions, such as HeH²⁺, and Ion-molecule collisions.

Research Support

Department of Energy

Recent Selected Publications

Elusive enhanced-ionization structure for H₂⁺ in intense ultrashort laser pulses, I. Ben-Itzhak, P.Q. Wang, A.M. Sayler, K.D. Carnes, M. Leonard, B.D. Esry, A.S. Alnaser, B. Ulrich, A.M. Tong, I.V. Litvinyuk. CM. Maharjan, P. Ranitovic, T. Osipov, S. Ghimire, Z. Chang, and C.L. Cocke, Phys. Rev. A 78, 063419 (2008).
Enhancing high-order above-threshold dissociation of H₂⁺ beams with few-cycle laser pulses, J. McKenna, A.M. Sayler, F. Anis, B. Gaire, Nora G. Johnson, E. Parke, J.J. Hua, H. Mashiko, C.M. Nakamura, E. Moon, Z. Chang, K.D. Carnes, B.D. Esry, and I. Ben-Itzhak, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133001 (2008) and Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science 7 (May 2008), at http://www.vjultrafast.org.
High kinetic energy release upon dissociation and ionization of N₂⁺ beams by intense few-cycle laser pulses, B. Gaire, J. McKenna, A.M. Sayler, Nora G. JOhnson, E. Parke, K.D. Carnes, B.D. Esry and I. Ben-Itzhak, Phys. Rev. A 78, 033430 (2008) and Virtual Journal of Ulrafast Science 10 (October 2008), at http://www.vjultrafast.org.
Measuring the dissociation branching ratio of heteronuclear ND⁺ , J. McKenna, A.M. Sayler, B. Gaire, Nora G. Johnson, E. Parke, K.D. Carnes, B.D. Esry and I. Ben-Itzhak, PHys. Rev. A 77, 063422 (2008) and Virtual Journal of Ultrfast Science 7 (July 2008), at http://www.vjultrafast.org.
Preference for breaking the O-H bond over the O-D bond following HDO ionization by fast ions, A.M. Sayler, M. Leonard, K.D. Carnes, R. Cabrera-Trujillo, B.D. Esry, I. Ben-Itzhak, J. Phys. B 39, 1701 (2006).
Above threshold Coulomb explosion of molecules in intense laser pulses, B.D. Esry, A.M. Sayler, P.Q. Wang, K.D. Carnes, and I. Ben-Itzhak, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 013003 (2006); and Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science 5 (August 2006), at http://www.vjultrafast.org.