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Associative electronic detachment (AED) between anions and neutral atoms leads to the detachment of the anion's electron resulting in the formation of a neutral molecule. It plays a key role in chemical reaction networks, like the…
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In this paper, we discuss the dissociative electron attachment process in Formic Acid and Propyl Amine. These are molecules containing more than one functional group and have low symmetry (Cs group). We measured the kinetic energy and…
Complete dissociation dynamics of low energy electron attachment to nitrogen dioxide around 8.5 eV resonance has been studied using a velocity map imaging (VMI) spectrometer. Besides the three prominent resonant peaks at around 1.4 eV, 3.1…
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Extensions of the eikonal approximation to low energy (20MeV/nucleon typically) are studied. The relation between the dynamical eikonal approximation (DEA) and the continuum-discretized coupled-channels method with the eikonal approximation…
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Dissociative electron attachment (DEA) to gas-phase carbonyl sulfide (OCS) has been studied diligently using the time-of-flight (TOF) based state-of-the-art velocity map imaging (VMI) technique. Three well-resolved DEA resonances are…
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…
Dissociative electron attachment (DEA) and ion-pair dissociation (IPD) processes of Difluoromethane (CH$_2$F$_2$) have been studied in the incident electron energy range 0 to 45 eV. Three different fragment anions (F$^-$, CHF$^-$ and…
We develop the theory of radiative association of an atom and a diatomic molecule within a close-coupling framework. We apply it to the formation of H$_3^-$ after the low energy collision (below 0.5 eV) of H$_2$ with H$^-$. Using recently…
The ion-molecule reactions $\text{D}_2^++\text{NH}_3$ and $\text{D}_2^++\text{ND}_3$ are studied at low collision energies ($E_{\text{coll}}$ from zero to $\sim k_\textrm{B}\cdot 50\,\text{K}$), with the $\text{D}_2^+$ ions in the ground…
In this paper, we discuss the dissociative electron attachment process in Methane. Kinetic energy and angular distributions of H^{-} and CH_{2}^{-} fragment anions across the broad resonance about 10 eV is reported. Angular distribution of…
The system of CH$_3$I adsorbed on submonolayer, monolayer and multilayer thin films of D$_2$O on Cu(110) has been studied by measuring the time-of-flight (TOF) distributions of the desorbing CH$_3$ fragments after photodissociation using…
Complete dissociation dynamics of low-energy electron attachment to carbon disulfide have been studied using the velocity slice imaging (VSI) technique. The ion yields of S- and CS- fragment ions as the function of incident electron energy…
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