Dissociative excitation of H2, HD, and D2 by electron impact

Details Dissociative excitation of H2, HD, and D2 by electron impact Dissociative excitation of H2, HD, and D2 by electron impact

Sep 1977

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Physical Review A - General Physics, 3rd Series, vol. 16, Sept. 1977, p. 991-1002.

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General Physics

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Deuterium, Electron Impact, Gas Dissociation, Gas Ionization, Hydrogen, Molecular Excitation, Autoionization, Energy Spectra, Ionization Cross Sections, Kinetic Energy, Metastable Atoms, Rydberg Series, Transit Time

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Time-of-flight techniques have been used to investigate the electron-impact dissociation of H2, HD, and D2 in order to determine the effect of isotopic mass variation in the target molecule on the dissociative excitation process. At incident electron energies near 100 eV, the time-of-flight spectrum produced from each molecule consists of atoms in the metastable 2s state and in high-lying long-lived Rydberg levels. The individual time-of-flight distributions, kinetic-energy spectra, and relative differential cross sections for these two species resulting from each molecule have been measured. The kinetic-energy spectrum of the Rydberg atoms produced from dissociative excitation of H2 was notably dissimilar in shape from the corresponding distributions produced from HD and D2. Also the 2s and Rydberg production cross sections differed between the three molecules. In the dissociation of the heteronuclear HD molecule, the ratio of fast H(2s) atoms to D(2s) atoms was about 1 to 1, while the same ratio comparing the Rydberg atoms was nearly 2 to 1. These differences indicate the influence of the mass variation on the position of the Franck-Condon region in the production of 2s atoms and on the competition between autoionization and dissociation in the formation of Rydberg fragments.

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