The 1st annual meeting of the COST Action CA18212 "Molecular Dynamics in the GAS phase" – MD-GAS – will be held in Caen (France) from Tuesday February the 18th 2020 to Friday February the 21st 2020.
Emerging highly advanced ion-beam traps and storage rings combined with synchrotrons, X-ray facilities, and high performance computers offer completely new ways to study Molecular Dynamics in the GAS phase (MD-GAS). Cryogenic traps and rings will allow studies of decay and reaction processes involving molecular ions in well-defined conformations and in single or narrow ranges of quantum states.
The MD-GAS COST Action aims to further develop and fully exploit the exceptional potential of the above range of tools to unravel the connection between the initial energy transfer in interactions between isolated molecules or clusters and photons, electrons, or heavy particles (ions, atoms, molecules) and the related molecular dynamics in unexplored time domains ranging from sub-femtoseconds to minutes and hours.
Furthermore, the Action aims to identify reaction mechanisms and routes that lead to the growth of new molecular species, clusters and aerosols. The new knowledge will be important for fundamental atomic and molecular physics, chemical physics, and for applications in radiation therapy and -damage on the nanoscale, astrochemistry, astrobiology, atmospheric science, and climate research.
The MD-GAS COST Action is organized in three Working groups:
New high-performance instrumentation and experimental methods to study gas phase molecular dynamics at ion-beam storage rings and traps, at synchrotrons and X-ray facilities;
Survival and destruction of molecules following their processing by heavy particles, electrons, or photons;
Charge-, energy flow, and molecular growth processes in intermolecular and intracluster reactions.
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