(e,e+ion) study on electron-induced dissociative ionization of O2
(e,e+ion) study on electron-induced dissociative ionization of O2
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DOI:
10.1103/physreva.99.022704
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发表时间:
2019-02
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
N. Watanabe;S. Yamada;M. Takahashi
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作者:
N. Watanabe;S. Yamada;M. Takahashi
Electron-induced dissociative ionization of molecules is a fundamental process in collision physics and molecular physics. In electron-impact ionization, a portion of the incident electron energy is transferred to the target and distributed among the internal energy of the molecular ion and the kinetic energy of the ejected electron. The molecular cation may, if the internal energy is sufficiently high, decay into ionic and neutral fragments. Dissociative ionization occurs also via photoionization, but there is an essential difference between the photo-and electron-induced processes, where the latter is not restricted by the dipole selection rules and electric quadrupole and higher multipole transitions contribute to the reaction, depending upon the magnitude of momentum transferred from the incident electron to the target. The dissociative ionization of molecular oxygen is an important source of energetic fragment species that play crucial roles in physical and chemical processes in planetary atmospheres and laboratory plasmas [1]. To get detailed knowledge of the dissociative ionization of O2, various kinds of electronimpact studies have been conducted over the years [1–10]. The partial ionization cross section for the production of O+ has been determined from ion-yield measurements [2–4], and the kinetic-energy (KE) distributions of O+ have been measured using a time-of-flight technique [5, 6] and, more recently, the velocity map imaging method [7]. Multipeaked KE distributions have been observed [5–9], suggesting the presence of four main O+ groups with peak energies of KE= 0. 8, 2, 3, and 5 eV [1], though there is difficulty in deconvoluting individual ionization channels from the data due to the significant overlapping of their contributions [7]. Despite the difficulty, the 0.8 eV peak has unambiguously