Eur. Phys. J. D 61, 63-70 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2010-10375-8

Dissociation and vibrational excitation of cold HD⁺ by electron impact

Department of Chemistry, University of Bucharest, Bd Regina Elisabeta 4-12, 030018 Bucharest, Romania

Corresponding author: ^a magda.fifirig@g.unibuc.ro

Received: 28 June 2010
Revised: 18 October 2010
Published online: 3 December 2010

Abstract

We have investigated the competition between dissociative excitation, dissociative recombination and vibrational excitation processes taking place in the reactive collisions of vibrationally cold HD⁺ with electrons. The energy range 1–12 eV has been considered.