Interpretation of intensities in electron-momentum and photoelectron spectroscopiesag

Relative intensities for the photoelectron reaction on atoms and molecules are not related to structure calculations in the same way as those for the noncoplanar symmetric (e, 2e) reaction. The photoelectron dipole matrix element is dependent on recoil momentum only through the unique relationship of recoil momentum to the photon energy and is much harder to calculate for chemically-interesting momenta. Relative intensities for binary (e, 2e) reactions are independent of total energy at high enough energies and strongly dependent on symmetry and recoil momentum, for which an intensity profile can be measured for values starting at zero. In comparing with structure calculations, binary (e, 2e) intensities for low recoil momentum may be compared directly with pole strengths in calculations of the one-electron Green's function. In the case of states within a single symmetry manifold the relative intensities will be independent of recoil momentum up to some maximum, usually at least a few atomic units.     

Ne原子(e,2e)反应中反冲离子动量分析

利用冷靶反冲离子动量谱仪,对电子轰击Ne原子的单电离反应(e,2e)进行了研究,实验测量了70—3300eV入射能量情况下,反应过程中产生的一价反冲离子的动量分布,并对反冲离子的总动量进行了还原。介绍了一个简单的碰撞机制,据此着重分析了反冲离子纵向动量和横向动量二维谱形成的原因,该碰撞机制能够较好地解释较高能量入射时的实验结果。最后根据反冲离子的动量,估算了出射电子的能量范围,为下一步进行电子、离子的符合测量奠定了基础。     

低能He2+-He反应中单电子俘获微分散射过程的实验研究

利用冷靶反冲离子动量谱仪装置系统研究了20—40 keV He²⁺-He碰撞体系的态选择单电子俘获过程,实验获得了单电子俘获过程的态选择截面以及角微分截面.在所研究的能区范围,电子俘获到L壳层的截面最大,为主要的反应道,这与分子库仑过垒模型的反应窗理论的预测一致.实验测量的态选择截面与原子轨道紧耦合的计算结果很好地符合,与光谱方法的测量结果存在一定的差别,主要原因是光谱方法不能测量完整的反应通道信息.实验结果表明,总角微分截面在小角度范围主要来源于电子俘获到基态的贡献,在大角度范围主要来自电子俘获到激发态的贡献;电子俘获到基态的和激发态的角微分截面均出现振荡结构,这种振荡来源于电子俘获反应中分子轨道之间的相干效应.实验测量的角微分截面与其他实验和紧耦合方法的计算结果进行了比较和分析. 关键词： 冷靶反冲离子动量谱仪 态选择电子俘获 态选择截面 角微分截面     

Quasielastic 3He(e,e'p)2H reaction at Q2 = 1.5 GeV2 for recoil momenta up to 1 GeV/c

We have studied the quasielastic 3He(e,e(')p)2H reaction in perpendicular coplanar kinematics, with the energy and the momentum transferred by the electron fixed at 840 MeV and 1502 MeV/c, respectively. The 3He(e,e(')p)2H cross section was measured for missing momenta up to 1000 MeV/c, while the A(TL) asymmetry was extracted for missing momenta up to 660 MeV/c. For missing momenta up to 150 MeV/c, the cross section is described by variational calculations using modern 3He wave functions. For missing momenta from 150 to 750 MeV/c, strong final-state interaction effects are observed. Near 1000 MeV/c, the experimental cross section is more than an order of magnitude larger than predicted by available theories. The A(TL) asymmetry displays characteristic features of broken factorization with a structure that is similar to that generated by available models.     

Probing the high momentum component of the deuteron at high Q2

The (2)H(e,e'p)n cross section at a momentum transfer of 3.5 (GeV/c)(2) was measured over a kinematical range that made it possible to study this reaction for a set of fixed missing momenta as a function of the neutron recoil angle θ(nq) and to extract missing momentum distributions for fixed values of θ(nq) up to 0.55 GeV/c. In the region of 35°≤θ(nq)≤45° recent calculations, which predict that final-state interactions are small, agree reasonably well with the experimental data. Therefore, these experimental reduced cross sections provide direct access to the high momentum component of the deuteron momentum distribution in exclusive deuteron electrodisintegration.     

Strong correlations in the He ground state momentum wave function observed in the fully differential momentum distributions for the p + He transfer ionization process

The four-particle process of proton-helium transfer ionization has been studied using cold target recoil ion momentum spectroscopy to measure the momenta of all three particles in the final state. Most of the electrons are emitted in the H0 scattering plane and in the backward direction. The final state momentum distributions show discrete structures very different from those expected for uncorrelated capture and ionization. The measured momentum pattern is interpreted to be due to a new transfer ionization reaction channel which results from strong correlations in the initial He ground state momentum wave function.     

Angular momentum polarization of the molecules in the Li + HF reaction

A theoretical analysis of the orientation and alignment of the rotational angular momenta of the reactants and products of the Li + HF(v _r = 0, j _r = 3) → LiF(v, j) + H reaction at a collision energy of E _coll = 0.317 eV is performed. The polarization of the angular momentum of the molecules involved in the reaction is based on the technique of spherical tensor operators (state multipoles). Quantum-mechanical calculations of the S-matrix of the reaction are carried out using the wave packet method. In particular, the influence of the orientation of the angular momentum of the HF reactant on the differential cross section is examined. It is shown that the contribution to the differential cross section comes only from be reactants with an angular momentum perpendicular to the reaction plane. In addition, the angular dependence of the orientation and alignment of the angular momenta of the reaction products are examined. It is shown that, for an isotropic distribution of reactant molecules, the orientation of the angular momenta of the products differs from zero only in the direction perpendicular to the reaction plane. Different experimental geometries, based on radiation enhanced multiphoton ionization, are proposed to detect the predicted effects.     

Molecular Axis Orientation in Charge Transfer Reactions Determined with a Reaction Microscope

基于在近代物理研究所建成的反应显微成像谱仪,实验研究了在分子离子与He原子碰撞中的电荷交换反应机制. 通过运动学完全测量实验充分展示了此碰撞体系的特征. 由于采用了符合测量技术和数据列表模式记录数据,因此实验记录了每个事件中因分子离子解离而产生的碎片的三维动量信息. 在离线数据分析和处理中,根据解离碎片的动量可以确定每个事件中的H₂⁺分子离子的分子轴取向. 在近轴反冲核近似下,可以认为实验测量得到的分子轴取向就是电荷交换碰撞时刻分子轴的取向. 实验中分子轴取向的     

近阈值下He原子的双电子电离实验中出射电子研究

利用适用于低能电子入射的反应显微成像谱仪，对电子入射He原子近阈值下的双电离过程进行了研究，实验测量了反应后3个粒子的全部动量，获得了出射电子间的关联信息.主要介绍近阈值下的双电离实验装置及实验技术，集中分析反应后出射电子的动量能量关系，对描述近阈值双电离的Wannier理论进行了检验，发现在入射电子能量为106eV时，实验结果具有Wannier理论预言的性质.     

Tensor correlations measured in 3He(e,e' pp)n

We have measured the 3He(e,e' pp)n reaction at an incident energy of 4.7 GeV over a wide kinematic range. We identified spectator correlated pp and pn nucleon pairs by using kinematic cuts and measured their relative and total momentum distributions. This is the first measurement of the ratio of pp to pn pairs as a function of pair total momentum p(tot). For pair relative momenta between 0.3 and 0.5 GeV/c, the ratio is very small at low p(tot) and rises to approximately 0.5 at large p(tot). This shows the dominance of tensor over central correlations at this relative momentum.     

The determination of the dynamic structures of atoms and molecules using the (e, 2e) reaction

In the (e, 2e) experiment a beam of electrons intersects a beam of slowly moving atoms or molecules, and pairs of emerging electrons are detected, in coincidence, at measured energies and angles. The momentum transfer distribution is closely related to the single-particle momentum distribution for a particular quantum state of the scattering molecule. The relative cross sections for different quantum states contain information about the relationship of single-particle orbitals to the many-body wave-function. The theoretical basis for interpretation is presented and shown to be self-consistent. The results for several experimental studies of atomic and molecular structure are analysed and the potential for further studies is discussed.     

Neutron-proton charge-exchange scattering from 8 to 29 GeV/c

The differential cross sections for neutron-proton charge-exchange scattering have been measured for incident neutron momenta between 8 and 29 GeV/c and for four-momentum transfers |t| between 0.002 and 1.0 (GeV/c)². A neutron beam with a broad momentum spectrum was scattered from a liquid hydrogen target. The momenta and scattering angles of the forward-scattered protons were measured by a spark-chamber magnet spectrometer. The flight times and scattering angles of the recoil neutrons were measured by a bank of thick scintillation counters. The efficiencies of the neutron counters were determined in a separate measurement. Absolute normalization of the data was obtained from a measurement of the diffraction dissociation of neutrons from carbon nuclei. Differential cross sections, based on ～ 23 000 events, are presented for 9 different momenta. The shape of the differential cross sections and the momentum dependence are examined in detail.     

Selection rules for electric multipole transition of triatomic molecule in scattering experiments

In the electron or x-ray scattering experiment,the measured spectra at larger momentum transfer are dominated by the electric dipole-forbidden transitions,while the corresponding selection rules for triatomic molecules have not been clearly elucidated.In this work,based on the molecular point group,the selection rules for the electric multipolarities of the electronic transitions of triatomic molecules are derived and summarized into several tables with the variation of molecular geometry in the transition process being considered.Based on the summarized selection rules,the electron energy loss spectra of H_2O,CO_2,and N_2O are identified,and the momentum transfer dependence behaviors of their valence-shell excitations are explained.     

Electron coincidence spectroscopy of O2: Valence electron momentum distributions and binding energies

The binding energy spectra and momentum distributions for the valence orbital transitions of molecular oxygen have been obtained using the (e,2e) reaction at total electron energies of 400 and 1200 eV. The outer π_g orbital is found to have a wave-function which is significantly more extended in momentum space than that of the more-tightly bound π_u orbitals. This is interpreted as a consequence of the single occupancy of the anti-bonding π_g orbitals. Peaks at 39 and 47 eV are assigned to ^4,2Σ_g⁻ ion states on the basis of the observed momentum distributions. The momentum distribution and observed intensity for the 32.5 eV transition supports the assignment of 2 Π_u for this ion state. The measured relative strengths for the various Π_u and Σ_u transitions are in qualitative agreement with CI and Green's function calculations.     

Rotational Rydberg states of polar molecules: Hund’s classification and Zeeman effect

The rotational Rydberg states of polar molecules, which arise as a result of the interaction of a Rydberg electron with core rotations, are considered. A large number of angular momenta in the core-electron system lead to a considerably greater number of possible coupling schemes of these momenta compared to the number of schemes determined by the classical five Hund’s cases for lower excited electron states of molecules. As a result of such detailed Hund’s classification, more than 30 different coupling schemes (Hund’s subcases) are constructed for rotational Rydberg states of molecules. The conditions of their realization are indicated in terms of the relative quantities of intramolecular interactions, for which analytical estimates are presented. For a large number of subcases, analytical expressions for the molecular matrix elements are found. These expressions can be useful in classification of the experimental spectra of highly excited molecules. As an application, for each of the subcases considered, analytical expressions are given, which describe the linear Zeeman effect and the Paschen-Back effect.     

Compton scattering and electron momentum distributions

The recent development of the technique of inelastic x-ray scattering to study the electron momentum distribution in the scatterer is surveyed. The simple relationship between the electron momenta and the Compton line shape in the impulse approximation is derived, and the validity of that approximation is discussed in the light of recent measurements. Current areas of research are reviewed.     

Isomeric yield ratios of fission products in the system of 24 MeV proton-induced fission of238U

Isomeric yield ratios of 30 fission products in 24 MeV proton-induced fission of²³⁸U were measured by the use of the ion-guide isotope separator on-line. The obtained isomeric yield ratios were converted to the angular momenta of primary fission fragments based on the statistical model. The deduced angular momenta were examined from various aspects. It is found that in general the angular momentum continuously increases with the fragment mass number including the region of symmetric mass division. However, there are some exceptions. For Sn isotopes the deduced angular momenta are quite small due to the spherical shape of the nuclear shell configuration. It is also concluded from the consideration of the charge distribution that the angular momentum of fission product scatters considerably within the narrow range of mass division. The dependence of the angular momentum on the available energy of fragments at scission point indicates that the individual fragment possesses a characteristic deformation at scission and/or the deduced angular momentum is seriously affected by the particle excitation after scission.     

Total, partial, and electron-capture cross sections for ionization of water vapor by 20-150 keV protons

We present experimental results for proton ionization of water molecules based on a novel event by event analysis of the different ions produced (and lost). We are able to obtain mass analyzed product ion signals (e.g., H2O+, OH+, O+, O++, H+) in coincidence with the projectile analyzed after the collision, i.e., either being H+, neutral H after single electron capture during the ionization event, or H- after double electron capture. After proper calibration we are thus able to determine a complete set of cross sections for the ionization of a molecular target by protons including the total and the partial cross sections and in addition also the direct ionization and the electron capture cross sections.