Excitation of electronic states in tetrahydrofuran by electron impact

T P T Do; M Leung; M Fuss; G Garcia; F Blanco; K Ratnavelu; M J Brunger

doi:10.1063/1.3575454

Excitation of electronic states in tetrahydrofuran by electron impact

J Chem Phys. 2011 Apr 14;134(14):144302. doi: 10.1063/1.3575454.

Authors

T P T Do¹, M Leung, M Fuss, G Garcia, F Blanco, K Ratnavelu, M J Brunger

Affiliation

¹ ARC Centre for Antimatter-Matter Studies, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.

PMID: 21495750
DOI: 10.1063/1.3575454

Abstract

We report on differential and integral cross section measurements for the electron impact excitation of the three lowest lying Rydberg bands of electronic states in tetrahydrofuran. The energy range of the present experiments was 15-50 eV with the angular range of the differential cross section measurements being 15°-90°. The important effects of the long-range target dipole moment and the target dipole polarizability, on the scattering dynamics of this system, are evident from the present results. To the best of our knowledge, there are no other theoretical or experimental data against which we can compare the cross section results from this study.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Electrons*
Furans / chemistry*
Models, Chemical
Scattering, Radiation
Spectroscopy, Electron Energy-Loss

Substances

Furans
tetrahydrofuran