Launching a particle on a ring: b2u-->ke2g ionization of C6F6.
Evidence is presented demonstrating that an electron launched into the continuum is trapped in an unprecedented quasibound state, namely, one that extends through the backbone of the six-member carbon ring of C6F6. The mode specificity of the vibrational sensitivity to the electron trapping provides an experimental signature for this phenomenon, while adiabatic static model-exchange scattering calculations are used to map the wave function, which corroborate the interpretation.
Das
Aloke
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Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA.
Poliakoff
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Lucchese
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Bozek
John D
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