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Interference Effects for Intermediate Energy Electron-Impact Ionization of H₂ and N₂ Molecules
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
  • Zehra Nur Ozer
  • Hari Chaluvadi
  • Don H. Madison, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Mevlut Dogan
Abstract

We have studied electron impact ionization of H2 and N2 molecules at intermediate energies to look for possible two center interference effects experimentally and theoretically. Here we report a study of the interference factor I for 250 eV electron-impact ionization. The experimental measurements are performed using a crossed-beam-type electron-electron coincidence spectrometer and theoretical calculations are obtained using the Molecular Three Body Distorted Wave Approximation (M3DW). We found that the I-factor demonstrated strong evidence for two-center interference effects for both H2 and N2. We also found that the I-factor is more sensitive to projectile angular scans than to ejected electron energy scans which indicate that for the present set of kinematics the diffraction of the projectile from two scattering centers is more important than interference between electron waves emitted from two different centers.

Meeting Name
International Conference on Many Particle Spectroscopy of Atoms, Molecules, Clusters and Surfaces (2014: Jul. 15-18, Metz, France)
Department(s)
Physics
Research Center/Lab(s)
Center for High Performance Computing Research
Keywords and Phrases
  • Electron Energy Levels,
  • Electron Scattering,
  • Electrons,
  • Ionization,
  • Molecules,
  • Particle Spectrometers,
  • Projectiles,
  • Spectrometers,
  • Distorted Wave Approximations,
  • Electron Impact-Ionization,
  • Electron-Electron Coincidences,
  • Interference Effects,
  • Intermediate Energies,
  • Intermediate-Energy Electrons,
  • Theoretical Calculations,
  • Two-Center Interference,
  • Impact Ionization
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2015 Institute of Physics - IOP Publishing, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
7-1-2015
Publication Date
01 Jul 2015
Citation Information
Zehra Nur Ozer, Hari Chaluvadi, Don H. Madison and Mevlut Dogan. "Interference Effects for Intermediate Energy Electron-Impact Ionization of H₂ and N₂ Molecules" Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol. 601 Iss. 1 (2015) ISSN: 1742-6588
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/don-madison/72/