학술논문

Electron-induced excitation, recombination and dissociation of molecular ions initiating the formation of complex organic molecules
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
ACS Earth Space Chem. 3, 2376 (2019)
Subject
Physics - Chemical Physics
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Physics - Atomic Physics
Physics - Plasma Physics
Language
Abstract
We review the study of dissociative recombination and ro-vibrational excitation of diatomic and small polyatomic molecular ions initiating complex organic molecules formation. In particular, we show how Multichannel Quantum Defect Theory (MQDT) and R-matrix methods are used to compute cross sections and rate coefficients for cations in well defined ro-vibrational levels of the ground electronic state, from sub-meV up to few eV collision energies. The most recent MQDT results are compared with either other theoretical data, or with measured data obtained in storage-ring experiments.
Comment: 20 pages, 13 figures