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Ion-momentum imaging of dissociative electron attachment dynamics in acetylene

Chemical Physics 2014-10-29 v1

Abstract

We present experimental results for dissociative electron attachment to acetylene near the 3 eV 2Πg^2\Pi_g resonance. In particular, we use an ion-momentum imaging technique to investigate the dissociation channel leading to C2_2H^- fragments. From our measured ion-momentum results we extract fragment kinetic energy and angular distributions. We directly observe a significant dissociation bending dynamic associated with the formation of the transitory negative ion. In modeling this bending dynamic with \emph{ab initio} electronic structure and fixed-nuclei scattering calculations we obtain good agreement with the experiment.

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@article{arxiv.1408.2555,
  title  = {Ion-momentum imaging of dissociative electron attachment dynamics in acetylene},
  author = {M. Fogle and D. J. Haxton and A. L. Landers and A. E. Orel and T. N. Rescigno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2555},
  year   = {2014}
}