Kevin Carnes
Research Associate Professor
Address:	29 Cardwell Hall
Phone:	(785) 532-2662
E-mail:	kdc@phys.ksu.edu
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Ph.D. Purdue University, 1984
B.S. Baker University, 1979

Research Area

Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

• Ionization and break-up of molecules by fast and slow highly-charged ions and by ultrashort intense laser pulses
• Developing novel tools for experimental research by combining JRML accelerators and ultrafast lasers
  

Research Support

• Department of Energy

Recent Selected Publications

• B. Gaire, A. M. Sayler, P. Q. Wang, Nora G. Johnson, M. Leonard, E. Parke, K. D. Carnes, and I. Ben-Itzhak, “Determining the absolute efficiency of a delay line microchannel-plate detector using molecular dissociation”, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 78, 024503 (2007)
• P. Q. Wang, A. M. Sayler, K. D. Carnes, J. F. Xia, M. A. Smith, B. D. Esry, and I. Ben-Itzhak, “Dissociation of H2+ in intense femtosecond laser fields studied by coincidence three-dimensional momentum imaging”, Phys. Rev. A 74, 043411 (2006)
• B. D. Esry, A. M. Sayler, P. Q. Wang, K. D. Carnes, and I. Ben-Itzhak, “Above threshold Coulomb explosion of molecules in intense laser pulses” , Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 013003 (2006)
• A. M. Sayler, M. Leonard, K. D. Carnes, R. Cabrera-Trujillo, B. D. Esry, I. Ben-Itzhak, "Preference for breaking the O-H bond over the O-D bond following HDO ionization by fast ions", J. Phys. B 39, 1701 (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)