K. Imura et al., Evidence for the HCl+(A) formation in the reaction of Ne(P-3) with the size-selected HCl dimer using an electrostatic hexapole field, CHEM LETT, (11), 2001, pp. 1136-1137
Penning ionization of Ne(P-3) metastable atom with size-selected HCl dimer
was studied by using an electrostatic hexapole field and chemiluminescence
detection. We found that the HCl dimer can also produce HCl+(A) ions in the
reaction with Ne(P-3) just like its corresponding monomer reaction. The in
ternal energy distribution of HCl+(A) in the dimer reaction is cooler than
that in the monomer reaction, reflecting the third-body effect due to the o
ther HCl in the dimer.