FAILURE TO OBSERVE ELECTRON CIRCULAR-DICHROISM IN CAMPHOR

Authors
TRANTHAM KW JOHNSTON ME GAY TJ
Citation
Kw. Trantham et al., FAILURE TO OBSERVE ELECTRON CIRCULAR-DICHROISM IN CAMPHOR, Canadian journal of physics, 74(11-12), 1996, pp. 925-928
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Canadian journal of physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00084204
Volume
74
Issue
11-12
Year of publication
1996
Pages
925 - 928
Database
ISI
SICI code
0008-4204(1996)74:11-12<925:FTOECI>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Analogous to optical circular dichroism, it is possible to have electr on circular dichroism, the preferential transmission of longitudinally polarized electrons through a chiral medium. Using stereoisomers of c amphor vapor as a scattering target, we looked for this effect at inci dent electron energies of 1, 3, 5, 7, or 10 eV. Within our detection l imit (similar to 0.02%) we have not observed a spin-dependent asymmetr ic transmission.