BEAMS OF MOLECULAR IONS IN INTENSE LASER FIELDS
	
	P. McKenna(a),A. Al-Zein(b),W.A. Bryan(b),
 	B.Srigengan(a),J.H. Sanderson(b),I.D. Williams(a), 
	W.R. Newell(b),P.F. Taday(c) and A.J. Langley(c)   


	(a) Department of Pure and Applied Physics, The 
	Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, 
	N.Ireland, UK
	(b) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University 
	College London, London  WC1E 6BT, UK
	(c) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxon  
	OX11 0XQ, UK


	In the first experimental study of its kind, beams 
	of the molecular ions H2+ and HD+ have been 
	subjected to intense fields via interaction with 
	femtosecond laser pulses.  Charged and neutral 
	fragmentation products have been separated and 
	analysed using a time-of-flight method.  The 
	time-of-flight spectra for the neutral species have 
	been analysed in terms of the dissociation dynamics.