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Deep-core photoabsorption and photofragmentation of tetrachloromethane near the Cl K-edge
W C Stolte1, A C F Santos2, G G B de Souza3
1Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4003, USA.
Abstract:
The fragmentation of the tetrachloromethane molecule following core-shell photoexcitation and photoionization in the neighborhood of the chlorine K-edge has been studied by using time-of-flight mass spectroscopy and monochromatic synchrotron radiation. Branching ratios for ionic dissociation were derived for all the detected ions, which are informative of the decay dynamics and photofragmentation patterns of the core-excited species. In addition, the absorption yield has been measured with a new assignment of the spectral features. The structure that appears above the Cl 1s ionization potential in the photoionization spectrum has been ascribed to the existing connection with electron-CCl4 scattering through experimental data and calculations for low-energy electron-molecule cross sections. In addition, the production of the doubly ionized Cl fragment, Cl2+, as a function of the photon energy has been analysed in the terms of a simple and an appealing physical picture, the half-collision model.
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