Kinematics of the three-body dissociation of SO23+, after sulphur 2p photoexcitation of the SO2 molecule
- 8 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 110 (2), 918-926
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.478059
Abstract
An original three-dimensional detector, which allows the precise measurement of the kinetic energy release and angular distributions of charged fragments, has been used to investigate the kinematics of the charge separation reaction SO 2 3+ →S + +O + +O + after core excitation in the S 2p threshold region. Kinetic energy release distributions and angular distributions are reported at various photonenergies. The role of bending and stretching of the molecule in the repartition of the kinetic energies in the dissociativekinematics is demonstrated by means of a simple, parameter free, Coulomb repulsion model. At certain photonenergies different geometries of SO 2 3+ have been observed experimentally. An ab initio study, at the multireference single- and double-excitation configuration interaction level, of the potential curves corresponding to the neutral core-excited SO 2 molecule is presented. This theoretical approach demonstrates that it is possible to explain this observation from the nuclear dynamics of the neutral core-excited molecule before the Auger decay occurs.Keywords
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