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1Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-0194, Japan.
Abstract:
The metastability and the dissociation processes of the OCS3+ states produced by the S 2p double Auger decay of OCS are investigated by multi-electron-ion coincidence spectroscopy using a magnetic bottle electron spectrometer. The spectra of the OCS3+ states filtered for the production of individual ions are derived by four-fold (or five-fold) coincidence among three electrons and a product ion (or two ions). The ground OCS3+ state is confirmed to be metastable in the 10 µs regime. The OCS3+ states relevant to the individual channels of two- and three-body dissociations are clarified.
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