title: Kinematically complete study on electron impact ionisation of aligned hydrogen molecules
creator: Senftleben, Arne
subject: ddc-530
subject: 530 Physics
description:  Within the work presented here, single ionisation of spatially aligned hydrogen molecules by 200 eV electrons was studied in a kinematically complete experiment. For the first time, a comprehensive set of fully differential cross sections (FDCS) was obtained for this process on a molecular target. The direction of the internuclear axis was derived from the fragment emission of post-collision dissociation of the residual ion. Therefore, a protonic fragment was detected in coincidence with the two final-state electrons using a dedicated reaction microscope and sophisticated data analysis. For direct ionisation into the ionic ground state, existing theoretical cross sections for aligned molecules were tested. Additionally, we observed molecular frame angular distributions of Auger electrons emitted through dissociative autoionisation of H2. Earlier findings of kinematically incomplete experiments were reproduced, but the FDCS reveal structures so far unknown. Furthermore, for random alignment, differential cross sections at two distinct values of the mean internuclear distance were obtained, providing new arguments in the current discussion on the nature of discrepancies observed between atomic and molecular collisions. 
date: 2009
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/10015/1/doktor_online2.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00010015
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-100150
identifier:   Senftleben, Arne  (2009) Kinematically complete study on electron impact ionisation of aligned hydrogen molecules.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/10015/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng