Electron impact ionization of liquid and gaseous water: a single-center partial-wave approach.
In this work, we report a unified methodology to express the molecular wavefunctions of water in both vapor and liquid phases by means of a single-center approach. These latter are then used as input data in a theoretical treatment--previously published and successfully tested--for describing the water ionization process in the first Born approximation (Champion et al 2006 Phys. Rev. A 73 012717). The multi-differential and total cross sections also obtained are reported for the two thermodynamical phases investigated and compared to the rare existing experimental and theoretical data.
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Université Paul Verlaine-Metz, Laboratoire de Physique Moléculaire et des Collisions, ICPMB (FR CNRS 2843), Institut de Physique, 1 bd Arago, 57078 Metz Cedex 3, France. champion@univ-metz.fr
D000390:Air Ionization; D000465:Algorithms; D004583:Electrons; D008956:Models, Chemical; D016011:Normal Distribution; D013816:Thermodynamics; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*
D014867:Water