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The collision-energy resolved rate coefficient for dissociative recombination of HD+ ions in the vibrational ground state is measured using the photocathode electron target at the heavy-ion storage ring TSR. Rydberg resonances associated…

Emission lines from highly-excited states (n >= 5) of H- and He-like ions have been detected in astrophysical sources and fusion plasmas. For such excited states, R-matrix or distorted wave calculations for electron-impact excitation are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 L. Fernandez-Menchero , G. Del Zanna , N. R. Badnell

Theoretical investigation of the dissociative recombination (DR) of NeH+ with low-energy electrons in the regime where the process occurs without direct potential energy curve crossings is presented. The calculations are performed using…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2025-09-09 Riyad Hassaine , Janos Zsolt Mezei , Dahbia Talbi , Jonathan Tennyson , Ioan F. Schneider

We experimentally probe electron collisions with HC$_3$N in the energy range from 0 to 10 eV with the focus on vibrational excitation and dissociative electron attachment. The vibrational excitation cross sections show a number of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 M. Ranković , P. Nag , M. Zawadzki , L. Ballauf , J. Žabka , M. Polášek , J. Kočišek , J. Fedor

A numerically solvable two-dimensional (2D) model, employed by the authors to study the dissociative recombination of H$_2^+$ in the ungerade symmetry [Phys. Rev. A $\mathbf{98}$, 062706 (2018)], is extended to describe the collision…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Dávid Hvizdoš , Roman Čurík , Chris H. Greene

We study the dissociation of H$_2$$^+$ in uv laser pulses by solving the non-Born-Oppenheimer time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation as a function of the photon energy $\omega$ of the pulse. Significant enhancements of the dissociation…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2014-07-22 Kunlong Liu , Qianguang Li , Pengfei Lan , Peixiang Lu

The article presents an improved theoretical description of dissociative recombination of HCO$^+$ and DCO$^+$ ions with a low energy electron. In the previous theoretical study (Phys. Rev. A {\bf 74}, 032707) on HCO$^+$, the vibrational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nicolas Douguet , Viatcheslav Kokoouline , Chris H. Greene

Vibrational-excitation cross sections of ground electronic state of carbon dioxide molecule by electron-impact through the CO2-(2\Pi) shape resonance is considered in the separation of the normal modes approximation. Resonance curves and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-01 V. Laporta , J. Tennyson , R. Celiberto

This paper presents a theoretical investigation of the cross sections for dissociative electron attachment and dissociative excitation processes in vibrationally excited CH radicals induced by electron impact. Resonant electron-CH…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 O. Abidi , I. Jendoubi , M. Telmini , R. Ghosh , K. Chakrabarti , V. Laporta

We present an experimental study of the dissociative excitation in the collision of helium ions with nitrogen and oxygen molecules for collision energy of $0.7-10$ keV. Absolute emission cross sections are measured and reported for most…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 M. Gochitashvili , R. Lomsadze , R. Ya. Kezerashvili , I. Noselidze , M. Schulz

The title reaction is studied using a quasi-classical trajectory method for collision energies between 0.1 meV and 10 eV, considering the vibrational excitation of H$_2^+$ reactant. A new potential energy surface is developed based on a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 P. del Mazo-Sevillano , D. Félix-González , A. Aguado , C. Sanz-Sanz , D. -H. Kwon , O. Roncero

A series of Multichannel Quantum Defect Theory-based computations have been performed, in order to produce the cross sections of rotational transitions (excitations $N_{i}^{+}-2 \rightarrow$ $N_{i}^{+}$, de-excitations $N_{i}^{+}$…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-13 O. Motapon , N. Pop , F. Argoubi , J. Zs. Mezei , M. D. Epée Epée , A. Faure , M. Telmini , J. Tennyson , I. F. Schneider

We report measurements of excitation functions for the O$^{+}-$N$_{2}$ process with the incident beam of $1-10$ keV O$^{+}$ in the ground O$^{+}(^{4}S)$ and metastable O$^{+}(^{2}D)$ and O$^{+}(^{2}P)$ states. The measurements are performed…

Calculations have been carried out for the vibrational quenching of excited H$_2$ molecules which collide with Li$^+$ ions at ultralow energies. The dynamics has been treated exactly using the well known quantum coupled-channel expansions…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bovino , E. Bodo , F. A. Gianturco

Hybrid atom-ion systems are a rich and powerful platform for studying chemical reactions, as they feature both excellent control over the electronic state preparation and readout as well as a versatile tunability over the scattering energy,…

We have investigated dissociative recombination (DR) of NH$^+$ with electrons using a merged beams configuration at the TSR heavy-ion storage ring located at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. We present…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-28 O. Novotný , M. Berg , D. Bing , H. Buhr , W. Geppert , M. Grieser , F. Grussie , C. Krantz , M. B. Mendes , C. Nordhorn , R. Repnow , D. Schwalm , B. Yang , A. Wolf , D. W. Savin

Direct dissociative recombination and resonant ion-pair formation reactions of $\mathrm{HeH^+}$ are theoretically studied using time-dependant wave-packets methods. The wave packets are propagated on potential energy curves that are in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Sifiso M. Nkambule , Malibongwe Tsabedze , Oscar N. Mabuza , Mbuso K. Matfunjwa

We have theoretically studied the effect of dissociative autoionization on the photoelectron energy spectrum in (1+2)-photon above threshold ionization(ATI) of H2 molecules. We have considered excitation from the ground state…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2009-10-31 Krishna Rai Dastidar , Ratan Kumar Das

We calculate accurate potential energy curves for a ground-state He$^+$ ion interacting with a He atom in the lowest-energy metastable $^3\!S$ electronic state. We employ the full configuration interaction method, equivalent to exact…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Jacek Gȩbala , Michał Przybytek , Marcin Gronowski , Michał Tomza

State-by-state cross sections for dissociative electron attachment and electron-impact dissociation for molecular oxygen are computed using ab initio resonance curves calculated with the R-matrix method. When O2 is in its vibrational ground…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 V. Laporta , R. Celiberto , J. Tennyson