ELASTIC-SCATTERING OF LOW-ENERGY ELECTRONS FROM AMMONIA

被引:42
作者
ALLE, DT
GULLEY, RJ
BUCKMAN, SJ
BRUNGER, MJ
机构
[1] Electron Physics Group, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
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10.1088/0953-4075/25/7/023
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We report absolute differential cross section measurements for vibrationally elastic electron scattering from NH3 at incident energies from 2-30 eV. The present results, from a crossed electron-molecular beam apparatus, represent the first comprehensive experimental attempt to quantify the elastic electron-NH3 scattering process. At each energy studied we have integrated our differential cross section dat to generate total elastic and elastic momentum transfer cross sections and a critical comparison of both our differential and integral cross sections against previous experiment and theory is provided. We also report our observation of a strong Feshbach resonance in the elastic channel at an energy of 5.59 +/- 0.05 eV.
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页码:1533 / 1542
页数:10
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