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ABSTRACTWe have measured absolute cross sections for the reaction of ground-state 0 + with ammonia at collision energies in the range from near-thermal to approximately 15 eV, using the guided-ion beam (GIB) method. Measurements were also performed using ammonia-^ to aid in mass assignments. The reaction is dominated at low collision energies by charge transfer; however, the cross section for this exothermic channel is rather small, decreasing sharply with energy from -40 A 2 for normal ammonia at nearthermal energies and leveling off at 3.7 A 2 above 6 eV; the cross section is slightly smaller for ammonia-d 3 . Other channels, corresponding to the production of NH 2 + and NO + ' and possibly OH + , were detected. The NO* channel, although nominally exothermic, is very small and exhibits a threshold of ~7 eV. Product recoil velocity distributions were also determined at selected collision energies, using GIB time-of-flight methods. Research. 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02159 Received: April 10, 2008: Revised Manuscript Received: July 14, 2008
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Guided-ion beam
O O o oWe have measured absolute cross section for the reaction of ground-state 0 + with ammonia at collision energies in the range from near-thermal to approximately 15 eV, using the guided-ion beam (GIB) method. Measurements were also performed using ammonia-di to aid in mass assignments. The reaction is dominated at low collision energies by charge transfer; however, the cross section for this exothermic channel is rather small, decreasing sharply with energy from ~40 A 2 for normal ammonia at near-thermal energies and leveling off at 3.7 A 2 above 6 eV; the cross section is slightly smaller for ammonia-dj. Other channels, correspondi...