title: Intermediate energy electron impact excitation of composite vibrational modes in phenol.
abstract: We report differential cross section results from an experimental investigation into the electron impact excitation of a number of the low-lying composite (unresolved) vibrational modes in phenol (C6H5OH). The measurements were carried out at incident electron energies in the range 15-40 eV and for scattered-electron angles in the range 10-90°. The energy resolution of those measurements was typically ∼80 meV. Calculations, using the GAMESS code, were also undertaken with a B3LYP/aug-cc-pVDZ level model chemistry, in order to enable us to assign vibrational modes to the features observed in our energy loss spectra. To the best of our knowledge, the present cross sections are the first to be reported for vibrational excitation of the C6H5OH molecule by electron impact.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University, G.P.O. Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.
authors.forename: R F C
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Neves
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University, G.P.O. Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 36036-900, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
authors.forename: M C A
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Lopes
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 36036-900, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Nixon
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Física 'Gleb Wataghin,' Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-859 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, 09210-580 Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: da Costa
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, C.P. 66318, 05315-970 São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: M T do N
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Varella
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Paraná, C.P. 19044, 81531-990 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
authors.forename: M H F
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Bettega
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Física 'Gleb Wataghin,' Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-859 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: M A P
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lima
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Barra do Garças, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
authors.forename: G B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University, G.P.O. Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Brunger