In dissociative recombination, a molecular ion captures an electron
and fragments into atoms, molecules or ions. Dissociative
recombination plays an important and often dominant role in many
low to moderate temperature plasmas found in planetary ionospheres,
the interstellar medium, fusion devices, laboratory experiments,
and the region near reentry vehicle heat shields. The process has
been studied for over 50 years but many of its mechanisms and those
of competing processes have only been elucidated recently. Indeed,
the study of dissociative recombination has been a challenge for
both experimentalists and theoreticians and many areas of modern
chemical physics have been employed to unlock its secrets.
Dissociative Recombination of Molecular Ions with Electrons is a
comprehensive collection of refereed papers describing the latest
developments in dissociative recombination research. The papers are
written by the leading researchers in the field. The topics covered
include the use of microwave afterglows, merged beams and storage
rings to measure rate coefficients and to identify the products and
their yields. The molecules studied range in size from the
smallest, H2+, to bovine insulin ions. The theoretical papers cover
the important role of Rydberg states and the use of wave packets
and quantum defect theory to deduce cross sections, rate constants
and quantum yields. Several theoretical and experimental papers
address the controversial topic of H3+ dissociative recombination
and its importance in the interstellar medium. Dissociative
recombination studies of other molecular ions in the interstellar
medium and in cometary and planetary atmospheres are covered.
Ionization is animportant competitive process to dissociative
recombination and its competition with predissociation and its role
in the reverse process of the association of neutral species is
presented. Dissociative attachment, in which an electron attaches
to a neutral molecule, has many similarities to dissociative
recombination. The topics covered include the accurate calculation
of electron affinities, attachment to molecules, clusters, and to
species absorbed on solid surfaces and electron scattering by a
molecular anion.
General
| Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
August 2003 |
| First published: |
2003 |
| Editors: |
Steven L. Guberman
|
| Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 36mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
473 |
| Edition: |
2003 ed. |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-306-47765-2 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Physics >
Atomic & molecular physics
|
| LSN: |
0-306-47765-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780306477652 |
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