Tuning the continuum ground state energy of NO2- 2 by water molecules.
Electron scattering on NO-2, NO-2 x (H2O), and NO-2 x (H2O)(2) was performed in two storage rings. We confirm the presence of earlier reported NO2-2 dianion resonances and show that they remain when water is attached. Importantly, hydration tunes the energy: each water molecule lowers the ground state energy by 0.8 +/- 0.3 eV relative to the monoanion. NO2-2 is observed to decay by two-electron emission, possibly in combination with fragmentation. NO(2-)2 x (H2O) mainly decays into NO-2 + H2O + e(-).
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Bluhme
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El Ghazaly
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Seiersen
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Brøndsted Nielsen
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Andersen
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