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Absolute cross-sections of fragment negative ions in electron collisions with difluoromethane

Atomic and Molecular Clusters 2020-11-11 v1

Abstract

Dissociative electron attachment (DEA) and ion-pair dissociation (IPD) processes of Difluoromethane (CH2_2F2_2) have been studied in the incident electron energy range 0 to 45 eV. Three different fragment anions (F^-, CHF^- and F2_2^-) are detected in the DEA range and two anions (F^- and CHF^-) are detected in IPD range. Absolute cross-section of the F^- fragment ion is measured for the first time. Three different resonances for both F^- and CHF^- ions and one single resonance peak for the F2_2^- ions are observed. Constant increase in ion counts above 8 eV incident electron energy indicates the involvement of IPD process. From the experimental observation, it is speculated that near 11 eV incident electron energy both DEA and IPD processes occur simultaneously.

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@article{arxiv.1806.09352,
  title  = {Absolute cross-sections of fragment negative ions in electron collisions with difluoromethane},
  author = {Dipayan Chakraborty and Dhananjay Nandi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.09352},
  year   = {2020}
}