The dissociative excitation of odd doublet cobalt atom levels in collisions of electrons with cobalt dichloride molecules

The extended crossed beam method was used to measure the dissociative excitation cross sections in e-CoCl₂ collisions for 91 transitions from odd doublet levels of cobalt atoms. The dissociative and direct CoI excitation cross sections were compared. Possible reaction channels at low electron energies were considered. The results were used to calculate the total dissociative excitation cross section of CoI levels at an exciting electron energy of 100 eV. For the z ² F°, z ² G°, and y ² G° levels, cascade population contributions were also determined.