Electron and positron scattering from 1,1- C2 H2 F2

C. Makochekanwa*, H. Kato, M. Hoshino, M. H.F. Bettega, M. A.P. Lima, O. Sueoka, H. Tanaka

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    Abstract

    1,1-difluoroethylene (1,1- C2 H2 F2) molecules have been studied for the first time experimentally and theoretically by electron and positron impact. 0.4-1000 eV electron and 0.2-1000 eV positron impact total cross sections (TCSs) were measured using a retarding potential time-of-flight apparatus. In order to probe the resonances observed in the electron TCSs, a crossed-beam method was used to investigate vibrational excitation cross sections over the energy range of 1.3-49 eV and scattering angles 90° and 120° for the two loss energies 0.115 and 0.381 eV corresponding to the dominant C-H (2 and 9) stretching and the combined C-F (3) stretching and C H2 (11) rocking vibrations, respectively. Electron impact elastic integral cross sections are also reported for calculations carried out using the Schwinger multichannel method with pseudopotentials for the energy range from 0.5 to 50 eV in the static-exchange approximation and from 0.5 to 20 eV in the static-exchange plus polarization approximation. Resonance peaks observed centered at about 2.3, 6.5, and 16 eV in the TCSs have been shown to be mainly due to the vibrational and elastic channels, and assigned to the B2, B1, and A1 symmetries, respectively. The π* resonance peak at 1.8 eV in C2 H4 is observed shifted to 2.3 eV in 1,1- C2 H2 F2 and to 2.5 eV in C2 F4; a phenomenon attributed to the decreasing CC bond length from C2 H4 to C2 F4. For positron impact a conspicuous peak is observed below the positronium formation threshold at about 1 eV, and other less pronounced ones centered at about 5 and 20 eV.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number164309
    JournalJournal of Chemical Physics
    Volume126
    Issue number16
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2007

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