TRANSLATIONAL ENERGY SPECTROMETRIC AND QUANTUM CHEMICAL STUDY OF CSQ+ (Q = 1, 2) RADICALS - CHARGE STRIPPING AND DISSOCIATION

A combined experimental and theoretical investigation has been carried out on CS+ and CS2+ radical ions. Ion translational energy spectrometry has been applied to study charge stripping of CS+ ions to yield metastable CS2+ ions and to study the energetics of spontaneous and collision-induced dissociation of these metastable doubly charged ions of CS. All-electron ab initio molecular orbital calculations, inclusive of fairly large-scale configuration interaction procedures, have been carried out to compute the potential energy functions of the different ionic systems involved in the collision processes studied experimentally.