Low Energy Electron Impact Excitation of Water
Abstract
We present normalized absolute differential and integral cross-section measurements for the low energy electron impact excitation of the lowest dissociative 3B1, 1B1,3A1 and 1A1 states of H2O. The DCS were taken at incident energies of 9 eV, 10 eV, 12 eV, 15 eV and 20 eV and scattering angles of 15° to 130° and normalized to the elastic electron scattering measurements of. The DCS were obtained after a sophisticated unfolding of the electron energy loss spectrum of water using photoabsorption data in the literature as investigated by Thorn et al.. Our measurements extend those of to near-threshold energies. We find both important agreements and differences between our DCS and those of. Comparison to our theory (multi-channel Schwinger) and that of earlier work will also be presented.
Funded by an NSF grant # RUI-PHY 0968874.- Publication:
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APS Annual Gaseous Electronics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- October 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011APS..GECJW2010R