Investigation into the vibrational yield of OH products in the OH plus H plus H channel arising from the dissociative recombination of H3O+

• The vibrational population of the hydroxyl radical, OH, formed in the OH+H+H channel arising from the dissociative recombination of the hydronium ion, H3O+, has been investigated at the storage ring CRYRING using a position-sensitive imaging detector. Analysis shows that the OH fragments are predominantly produced in the v=0 and v=1 states with almost equal probabilities. This observation is in disagreement with earlier FALP experiments, which reported OH(v=0) as the dominant product. Possible explanations for this difference are discussed.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

dissociation

free radicals

hydrogen compounds

ion recombination

oxygen compounds

positive ions

vibrational states

Physics

Fysik

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art (subject category)