Nonstandard behavior of a negative ion reaction at very low temperatures |
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Authors: | Otto R Mikosch J Trippel S Weidemüller M Wester R |
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Institution: | Physikalisches Institut, Universit?t Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 3, 79104 Freiburg, Germany. |
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Abstract: | We have studied the negative ion reaction NH2-+H_{2}-->NH_{3}+H- in the temperature range from 300 to 8 K. We observe a strongly suppressed probability for proton transfer at room temperature. With decreasing temperature, this probability increases, in accordance with a longer lifetime of an intermediate anion-neutral complex. At low temperatures, a maximum in the reaction rate coefficient is observed that suggests the presence of a very small barrier at long range or a quantum mechanical resonance feature. |
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