Coincidence Detection of Protons and Metastable Hydrogen Atoms from Dissociative Ionization of Molecular Hydrogen by Electron Impact
Abstract
A coincidence has been observed between H(2S) and H('+) fragments resulting from the bombardment of H(,2) with 100 eV electrons. A significant source of this coincidence is believed to be the 2s(sigma)(,g) state of H(,2)('+). The time-of-flight (TOF) distribution of H(2S) fragments from the 2s(sigma)(,g) state was measured and converted to the kinetic energy distribution from which the potential energy of the 2s(sigma)(,g) state in the Franck-Condon region was constructed. The result is in good agreement with a published calculation.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985PhDT.......109C
- Keywords:
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- TIME-OF-FLIGHT;
- Physics: Molecular