| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L25394/01 |
| Title: |
COINCIDENCE STUDIES OF THE DISSOCIATION OF HIGHLY- EXCITED STATES OF NEUTRAL MOLECULES |
| Principal Investigator: |
Price, Professor SD |
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Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
UCL |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 1996 |
Ends: |
31 March 1999 |
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48,368
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This research proposal requests support for the construction and development of an electron-neutral coincidence experiment to study the dissociation of highly excited states of neutral molecules at a state selective level. The development of this experiment has been stimulated by the success of coincidence techniques in probing the dissociation dynamics of specific vibronic states of molecular ions. To date, the dissociation reactions of highly excited neutral molecules have received little attention. In this programme, such highly excited states will be generated inelectron-molecule collisions and their dissociation to form metastable fragments will be monitored by detecting the scattered electron and metastable fragment in coincidence. The distributions of released kinetic energy that will result from the proposed experiments will be attributable to specific vibronic states of the parent molecule. These energy distributions will allow the potential energy surfaces involved in the dissociation reaction to be mapped out and the detailed energy partitioning of the fragmentation process to be determined. As the proposed experiment employs electron impact excitation, it will allow the population of highly excited states inaccessible by photoexcitation and will provide the first systematic and state-selective survey of their dissociation.
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