Excited Negative Ions and Molecules and Negative Ion Production

Abstract

Research has been performed to determine fundamental properties of negative ions; decay mechanisms and products of molecular Rydberg states; and mechanisms affecting H- production in ion source discharges. Experiments were performed on both stable and metastable states of Ca-, Cs-, He 2-, and WO3-; on the dissociative decay of Rydberg states of H3, D3, D2H, H2D, NeH, NeD, NH, CH, and 02; on the product states of dissociative recombination of Ar2 and Kr2; and on the vibrational distribution of O2+ resulting from the reaction O+ + C02 yields O2+ + CO. Negative Ions, Molecular Rydberg States, Predissociation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA247017

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People

  • James R. Peterson

Organizations

  • SRI International

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Detectors
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Dye Lasers
  • Electrons
  • Ground State
  • Ion Beams
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Laser Beams
  • Liquid Dye Lasers
  • Measurement
  • Molecular Physics
  • Molecules
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Scattering
  • Spectroscopy
  • Two Dimensional

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