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Published on: September 5, 2014
Integral cross sections for electron impact excitation of vibrational and electronic states in phenol
R F C Neves1, D B Jones1, M C A Lopes2
1School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia.
Abstract:
We report on measurements of integral cross sections (ICSs) for electron impact excitation of a series of composite vibrational modes and electronic-states in phenol, where the energy range of those experiments was 15-250 eV. There are currently no other results against which we can directly compare those measured data. We also report results from our independent atom model with screened additivity rule correction computations, namely, for the inelastic ICS (all discrete electronic states and neutral dissociation) and the total ionisation ICS. In addition, for the relevant dipole-allowed excited electronic states, we also report f-scaled Born-level and energy-corrected and f-scaled Born-level (BEf-scaled) ICS. Where possible, our measured and calculated ICSs are compared against one another with the general level of accord between them being satisfactory to within the measurement uncertainties.
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