Dissociative recombination of highly symmetric polyatomic ions.
A general first-principles theory of dissociative recombination is developed for highly symmetric molecular ions and applied to H(3)O(+) and CH(3)(+), which play an important role in astrophysical, combustion, and laboratory plasma environments. The theoretical cross sections obtained for the dissociative recombination of the two ions are in good agreement with existing experimental data from storage ring experiments.
Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA.
Nicolas
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Douguet
Ann E
AE
Orel
Chris H
CH
Greene
Viatcheslav
V
Kokoouline