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J Phys Chem Lett. 2015 Dec 03;6(23):4762-6. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02155. Epub 2015 Nov 17.

Electron Transfer and Associative Detachment in Low-Temperature Collisions of D(-) with H.

The journal of physical chemistry letters

Štěpán Roučka, Dmytro Mulin, Pavol Jusko, Martin Čížek, Jiří Eliášek, Radek Plašil, Dieter Gerlich, Juraj Glosík

Affiliations

  1. Department of Surface and Plasma Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague , Prague 180 00, Czech Republic.
  2. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague , Prague 180 00, Czech Republic.
  3. Department of Physics, Technische Universität , 09107 Chemnitz, Germany.

PMID: 26562620 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02155

Abstract

The interaction of D(-) with H was studied experimentally and theoretically at low temperatures. The rate coefficients of associative detachment and electron transfer reactions were measured in the temperature range 10-160 K using a combination of a cryogenic 22-pole trap with a cold effusive beam of atomic hydrogen. Results from quantum-mechanical calculations are in good agreement with the experimental data. The rate coefficient obtained for electron transfer is increasing monotonically with temperature from 1 × 10(-9) cm(3) s(-1) at 10 K to 5 × 10(-9) cm(3) s(-1) at 160 K. The rate coefficient for associative detachment has a flat maximum of 3 × 10(-9) cm(3) s(-1) between 30 and 100 K.

Keywords: associative detachment; charge transfer; electron transfer; hydride; hydrogen

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