MEASUREMENT OF ABSOLUTE DIFFERENTIAL CROSS-SECTIONS FOR THE EXCITATION OF THE PI,PI-ASTERISK TRIPLET-STATE OF ETHENE BY ELECTRON-IMPACT AT 0-DEGREES AND 180-DEGREES
Kr. Asmis et M. Allan, MEASUREMENT OF ABSOLUTE DIFFERENTIAL CROSS-SECTIONS FOR THE EXCITATION OF THE PI,PI-ASTERISK TRIPLET-STATE OF ETHENE BY ELECTRON-IMPACT AT 0-DEGREES AND 180-DEGREES, The Journal of chemical physics, 106(17), 1997, pp. 7044-7046
A recently developed magnetically collimated electron impact spectrome
ter with pulsed incident electron beam and time-of-flight selection of
electrons scattered in the forward and backward directions was used t
o measure differential cross sections (DCSs) for the excitation of the
valence triplet state of ethene at scattering angles of 0 degrees and
180 degrees. The measurements are complemented by data at intermediat
e angles measured with a conventional spectrometer using hemispherical
electron-energy analyzers. A pronounced trend is found in the DCS mea
sured as a function of incident electron energy at 0 degrees, 90 degre
es, and 180 degrees: a band assigned as the (2)(pi,pi(2)) core excite
d shape resonance becomes substantially wider and moves to higher ener
gies with increasing angle of observation. The DCS have also been meas
ured as a function of scattering angle, in the range 0 degrees-135 deg
rees and at 180 degrees, at 1.5, 3, and 10 eV above threshold. The DCS
was found to be strongly backward peaked at energies higher than 5 eV
above threshold. The results at 0 degrees and 180 degrees are found t
o be a sensitive test of the theory. All qualitative trends are reprod
uced well by recent published Schwinger multichannel and complex Kohn
theories, but quantitative differences are found in the absolute magni
tude of the DCSs and the position of the resonances. (C) 1997 American
Institute of Physics.