Differential electron emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules under fast ion impact

Biswas, Shubhadeep; Champion, Christophe; Weck, P. F.; Tribedi, Lokesh C.

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-05149-8

Differential electron emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules under fast ion impact

Journal Article · Mon Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05149-8· OSTI ID:1421614

Biswas, Shubhadeep ^[1]; Champion, Christophe ^[2]; Weck, P. F. ^[3]; Tribedi, Lokesh C. ^[1]

Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research. Mumbai (India). Dept. of Nuclear and atomic Physics
Univ. of Bordeaux, Gradignan (France). Centre d' Etudes Nucleaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG)
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Interaction between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecule and energetic ion is a subject of interest in different areas of modern physics. Here, we present measurements of energy and angular distributions of absolute double differential electron emission cross section for coronene (C₂₄H₁₂) and fluorene (C₁₃H₁₀) molecules under fast bare oxygen ion impact. For coronene, the angular distributions of the low energy electrons are quite different from that of simpler targets like Ne or CH₄, which is not the case for fluorene. The behaviour of the higher electron energy distributions for both the targets are similar to that for simple targets. In case of coronene, a clear signature of plasmon resonance is observed in the analysis of forward-backward angular asymmetry of low energy electron emission. For fluorene, such signature is not identified probably due to lower oscillator strength of plasmon compared to the coronene. The theoretical calculation based on the first-order Born approximation with correct boundary conditions (CB1), in general, reproduced the experimental observations qualitatively, for both the molecules, except in the low energy region for coronene, which again indicates the role of collective excitation. Single differential and total cross sections are also deduced. An overall comparative study is presented.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

OSTI ID:: 1421614

Report Number(s):: SAND--2017-11984J; 658453

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Journal Name: Scientific Reports Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 7; ISSN 2045-2322

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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