https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2015-50636-4
Regular Article
Ion appearance energies at electron-impact dissociative ionization of sulfur hexafluoride molecule and its fragments*
Institute of Electron Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 88017 Uzhgorod, Ukraine
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Received: 28 August 2014
Received in final form: 14 January 2015
Published online: 7 July 2015
Abstract
Theoretical analysis of appearance energies for SFk+ (k = 0−n) ion fragments of SF6 molecule as well as F+ and F2+ ions at electron-impact dissociative ionization of SFn (n = 1−6) molecules is presented. Theoretical methods of GAMESS software package were used to calculate the total energies of neutral and charged molecular and atomic fragments. The dissociative ionization process is concluded to occur via repulsive highly-excited electronic states of the SF6 molecule and its fragments, due to which the observed appearance energies exceed the theoretical values. The electron binding energies on the molecular orbitals in the SF6 molecule are compared with the ion fragment appearance energies.
Contribution to the Topical Issue “Elementary Processes with Atoms and Molecules in Isolated and Aggregated States”, edited by Friedrich Aumayr, Bratislav Marinkovic, Stefan Matejcik, John Tanis and Kurt H. Becker.
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag 2015
