Quadrupole ion trap, 37–39, 72, 81, 142
Quasi-equilibrium theory (QET), 27, 89, 92
R
Radical, 30, 31, 34, 86, 90, 119, 129, 149–151,
162, 163, 173, 175, 192, 211
Rate constant, 27, 80, 81, 89, 92, 93, 108, 189
Resonance structure, 13, 47
Retinal, 12, 13, 15, 46, 53, 54, 57, 58, 210
Rhodopsin (Rh), 12, 13, 46, 53, 54, 57
Ribo nucleic acid (RNA), 1, 181–203
Rice Ramsperger Kassel Marcus (RRKM), 89,
92, 189
S
Schiff base, 12, 13
Semiempirical methods, 52–53
Single-reference methods, 50, 52
Solvation, 16, 53, 142, 146, 196, 203
Solvatochromism, 196
Soret band, 118, 121, 122, 125, 129, 146,
148, 149
Spin flip, 6, 27
Stacking, 196, 202
Statistical dissociation, 27, 31, 32, 80, 165,
190, 191, 202
Stokes shift, 7, 9, 106
Storage ring, 16, 22–33, 41, 42, 72–74, 121,
126, 134, 142, 146, 163, 189, 191, 224
T
Tagging, 151
Tautomer, 198, 200
Tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ), 24, 25
Thermionic emission, 76, 84, 85
Thymine, 1, 12, 107, 182, 190, 201
Time constant, 26–28, 31, 32, 128–136,
169–171, 189, 191
Time-dependent density functional theory
(TD-DFT), 119
Time of flight, 35–36, 41, 83, 190, 212
Time-resolved action spectroscopy, 72–81
Triplet state, 7, 27, 106, 132, 133, 175, 182, 189
Trp-cage protein, 108, 109
Tryptophan, 3, 5, 12, 34, 142, 149, 150, 155,
158, 161–163, 166, 170–174
Tyrosine, 3, 5, 12, 29, 31, 70, 99, 142, 144, 147,
155, 156, 163, 164, 166, 167, 172–175,
213–219, 222
U
Ultrafast, 68, 90, 92, 94, 220
Ultraviolet, 11, 16, 141, 210
Uracil, 1, 12, 182
V
Vacuum ultraviolet (VUV), 141, 210–222
Vertical detachment energy (VDE), 75, 76, 83,
86–88
Vibration, 72, 88, 98, 163, 167, 168
Vibrational autodetachment (VAD), 77, 83, 86,
88–90, 93, 99
Vibrational cooling (VC), 6, 129
Visible, 11, 12, 16, 54, 68, 118, 125, 126, 128,
142, 146–151, 209, 210
Vision, 12, 68, 90, 210, 224
W
Watson Crick, 1, 107, 182
Z
Zajfman trap, 36, 37, 41
230
Index