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Energy studies of atomic atmospheric ions in collisions with molecular nitrogen and oxygen
Author(s) -
Enos C. S.,
Lee A. R.,
Brenton A. G.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
organic mass spectrometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9888
pISSN - 0030-493X
DOI - 10.1002/oms.1210260506
Subject(s) - metastability , ion , nitrogen , atomic physics , oxygen , spectroscopy , molecule , translational energy , chemistry , physics , excited state , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics
Studies of internal energy changes between the partners in ion‐molecule collisions can be facilitated by high‐resolution translational energy spectroscopy. Collisions of keV H + , N + and O + on molecular nitrogen and oxygen have shown that for 30 reaction channels all are consistent with spin conservation, which has not been generally acknowledged in previous studies. Estimations of the fractional metastable composition in each ion beam have also been made.