Laser-induced alignment is used to transiently fix a molecule in space long enough to study its dynamics in the molecular frame, elucidating ultrafast chemical processes. Here we use laser alignment to transiently fix CS 2 molecules in space long enough to elucidate, in the molecular reference frame, details of ultrafast electronicvibrational dynamics during a photochemical reaction. These three-dimensional 1
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