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We present a joint experimental and theoretical investigation of a fundamental process in atomic and molecular physics: electron impact excitation of molecular hydrogen’s (H2) most dominant transition (X1Σg+ → b3Σu+). Excitation of this state is by far the main channel that causes the dissociation of H2 into H + H atoms at low energies. The Convergent Close-Coupling (CCC) calculations predicted significant, more than factor of two, disagreements with previously recommended cross sections. Khakoo et al. have recently designed a novel electron scattering instrument (an electron time-of-flight spectrometer, TOF), and have measured differential scattering cross sections for the excitation of the X1Σg+ → b3Σu+ transition, as ratios to elastic scattering, with high precision. The recently developed TOF spectrometer does not suffer from transmission problems like conventional spectrometers. Using the present theoretical and experimental approaches, we have been able to get outstanding agreement between theory and experiment for the excitation of a molecule for a very important transition in this most basic of all molecules. This work heralds significant progress in electron-molecule scattering, as well as promoting our understanding of dissociation processes not found in atoms.
Authors (11)
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Dmitry Fursa
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Liam Scarlett
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Jonathan Tapley
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Jeremy Savage
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Mark Zammit
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Robert Wright
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Grant Dolmat
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Merl Martin
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Leigh Hargreaves
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Murtadha Khakoo
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- Category:
- Conference activity
- Type:
- publikacja w wydawnictwie zbiorowym recenzowanym (także w materiałach konferencyjnych)
- Title of issue:
- 45th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics strony 1 - 4
- Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Bibliographic description:
- Fursa D., Scarlett L., Tapley J., Savage J., Zammit M., Zawadzki M., Wright R., Dolmat G., Martin M., Hargreaves L., Khakoo M.: Electron-impact dissociation of molecular hydrogen: benchmark cross sections// 45th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics/ ed. S. Coda, J. Berndt, G. Lapenta, M. Mantsinen, C. Michaut, S. Weber : , 2018, s.1-4
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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