An experimental study of the energetics of fragmentation of H3

✍ Scribed by Paul M. Curtis; Brian Wesley Williams; Richard F. Porter

• Book ID: 103020678
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 349 KB
• Volume: 65
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(79)87068-2

✦ Synopsis

Spatial barn profde measurement'c indiate that transient 113 molecules. formed in electron mpture colIisions of 3-4 I;eV 11; ions with -\rg atoms. fragment to if ;Itorrd and 112 mnieeules Gth up to fibe vibrational quzmta. The experimental Ei3 f~mentacion energy (-12 f 0.1 eV) is in kood agrwnrnt nith titcorctiwl prcdictionx I _ Intmduction SUxiies of electron capture reactions of Hs ions in co!!isionai interactions witIt atoms or mokcules Ixwc provided information on the nature of the unstable nsurr~i I I3 furmed in these processes [ 1 J _ Recent Iy, Vogkr [ZJ !xas reported structural dam for an excited ! 13 species formed when ztn El; ion captures an elec-