Resonant structure of low-energy H{sub 3}{sup +} dissociative recombination
- Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg (Germany)
- Department of Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot (Israel)
- Columbia University, 550 West 120th Street, New York, New York 10027 (United States)
- Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA, and Laboratoire Aime Cotton, CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud XI, F-91405 Orsay (France)
- Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440 (United States)
High-resolution dissociative recombination rate coefficients of rotationally cool and hot H{sub 3}{sup +} in the vibrational ground state have been measured with a 22-pole trap setup and a Penning ion source, respectively, at the ion storage-ring TSR. The experimental results are compared with theoretical calculations to explore the dependence of the rate coefficient on ion temperature and to study the contributions of different symmetries to probe the rich predicted resonance spectrum. The kinetic energy release was investigated by fragment imaging to derive internal temperatures of the stored parent ions under differing experimental conditions. A systematic experimental assessment of heating effects is performed which, together with a survey of other recent storage-ring data, suggests that the present rotationally cool rate-coefficient measurement was performed at 380{sub -130}{sup +50} K and that this is the lowest rotational temperature so far realized in storage-ring rate-coefficient measurements on H{sub 3}{sup +}. This partially supports the theoretical suggestion that temperatures higher than assumed in earlier experiments are the main cause for the large gap between the experimental and the theoretical rate coefficients. For the rotationally hot rate-coefficient measurement a temperature of below 3250 K is derived. From these higher-temperature results it is found that increasing the rotational ion temperature in the calculations cannot fully close the gap between the theoretical and the experimental rate coefficients.
- OSTI ID:
- 21541289
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. A, Vol. 83, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.032711; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 1050-2947
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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