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Absolute cross sections for dissociative electron attachment to HCl, HBr, and their deuterated analogs

  • Fedor, Juraj Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • May, Olivier Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Allan, Michael Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
    03.09.2008
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  • Physical Review A. - 2008, vol. 78, p. 032701
Deuterium compounds
Electron attachment
Hydrogen compounds
Isotope effects
Molecule-electron collisions
Negative ions
Resonant states
English We have measured absolute dissociative electron attachment cross sections for HX and DX (X=Cl and Br) using a trochoidal electron spectrometer equipped with a total ion collection collision chamber, operated both in a field-free passive ion collection mode, and an active ion collection mode, with an extracting electric field. Our results for Br⁻ from HBr are in an excellent quantitative agreement with recent predictions of the nonlocal resonance model, but the cross sections for Cl⁻ from HCl and DCl are, respectively, 2.2 times and 2.8 times smaller than the theoretical predictions. Cross sections for the production of H⁻ and D⁻ in the 6–10  eV range are much smaller than those for X⁻ and the isotope effect is much weaker, consistent with the assignment to core-excited Feshbach resonances. There is one exception, however, the 9  eV band in HCl has a large isotope effect.
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Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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Département de Chimie
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  • English
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Chemistry
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