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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 10(105)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.103202

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Hot Water Molecules from Dissociative Recombination ofD3O+with Cold Electrons

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Abstract

Individual product channels in the dissociative recombination of deuterated hydronium ions and cold electrons are studied in an ion storage ring by velocity imaging using spatial and mass-sensitive detection of the neutral reaction fragments. Initial and final molecular excitation are analyzed, finding the outgoing water molecules to carry internal excitation of more than 3 eV in 90% of the recombination events. Initial rotation is found to be substantial and in three-body breakup strongly asymmetric energy repartition among the deuterium products is enhanced for hot parent ions.