Dissociative electron attachment or DEA has many practical applications in medicine, industry, and astrophysics. In DEA, a low-energy electron can break up a large molecule via a resonant attachment process. We develop full quantum mechanical as well as semiclassical theories to treat DEA when the molecule has more than one degree of vibrational freedom.
Recent publications
- H. B. Ambalampitiya and I. I. Fabrikant, “Nonlocal theory of dissociative electron attachment: Inclusion of two vibrational modes” , Phys. Rev. A 102, 022801 (2020). Link
