title: A novel merged beams apparatus to study anion-neutral reactions.
abstract: We have developed a novel laboratory instrument for studying gas phase, anion-neutral chemistry. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such apparatus which uses fast merged beams to investigate anion-neutral chemical reactions. As proof-of-principle we have detected the associative detachment reaction H(-)+H-->H(2)+e(-). Here we describe the apparatus in detail and discuss related technical and experimental issues.
authors.affiliation: Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027-6601, USA.
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