Dissociative electron attachment: Threshold phenomena and multimode effects

Dissociative electron attachment near threshold, thermal attachment rates, and vertical attachment energies of chloroalkanes

Dissociative electron attachment to DNA.

Electron-stimulated desorption of anions from thin films of linear and supercoiled DNA is investigated in the range 3-20 eV. Resonant structures are observed with maxima at 9.4+/-0.3, 9.2+/-0.3, and 9.2+/-0.3 eV, respectively, in the yield dependence of H-, O-, and OH- on the incident electron energy. Their formation is attributed to dissociative electron attachment.

Nonlocal effects in dissociative electron attachment to H2.

Electron scattering by diatomic molecules involving the formation of a single resonance is treated within the configuration-interaction formalism. A technique is presented for solving the resulting nonlocal integro-dN'erential equation for the nuclear motion in the resonant state. This technique is applied to the scattering of electrons by molecular hydrogen (and its isotopes) via the formation...

Dissociative electron attachment to abasic DNA.

Thin films of the short single DNA strand, GCAT, in which one of the bases has been removed were bombarded with 3 to 15 eV electrons. The yield functions of the H(-), O(-) and OH(-) ions desorbed from these films exhibit a broad peak near 9 eV, which is attributed to dissociative electron attachment to the basic molecules. Whereas removal of any one of the bases considerably decreases N-glycosi...

A dissociative electron attachment cross-section estimator

Dissociative electron attachment (DEA) is the major process where molecules are destroyed in low-energy plasmas. DEA cross sections are therefore important for a whole variety of applications but are both hard to measure or compute accurately. A method for estimating DEA cross sections based a simple resonance plus survival model is presented. Test results are presented for DEA of molecular oxy...